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• "Reliable Scale" scale system
• Robust construction
• 2 level alarm system
• Identifies 5 weight ranges
• Easy exit air
• Maximum sort feature
• Locking gates
• PC compatible electronics
• Fail safe system default
• Nylon bushing at all wear points
• Shipping weight: 583 lbs.
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• Safety release system
• RFID Capability
• Wheel option
• Available in stainless steel
or powder coated
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16 THE RURAL VOICE
something to root in, straw or other
bedding also has the benefit of
thermoregulation, reducing hunger,
protection from the floor and
increased activity.
North America's swine industry
has moved mostly to liquid manure,
both for convenience and because
some of the main production areas
had little access to straw and corn
stover makes poor bedding. To
provide the requirement for
"manipulable material" provides
both supply issues and a change in
manure handling.
While the Food Marketing
Institute and the National
Council of Chain
Restaurants advocate freedom of
movement in group systems, they
have also outlined requirements for
stalls. Since this is an important
market, "when they say this is what
we want, it's important for us to
listen," Gonyou said. They say sows
in stalls should be able to able to lie
down on their sides without their
udder extending into the adjacent
stall.
But the sow increases in size both
as she ages and as her pregnancy
progresses and narrow stalls that may
be adequate to meet these
requirements with a young sow, will
be inadequate for older sows,
Gonyou said.
While there are 72 different group
housing management systems if you
include variations like floor type,
Gonyou focussed on four.
Floor feeding, which was the
general situation before stalls, creates
the kind of competitive situation that
made stalls popular. Dominant sows
are able to monopolize the feed and
subordinate animals encounter both
social and nutritional stress.
While floor feeding will never
offer very good control over
individual feed intake, there are
management options to improve the
situation, Gonyou said.
Forming groups of similar sized
animals will result in more even
competition for, and distribution of,
feed. It's important under this system
to group animals that have similar
feed requirements. Generally this will
require dividing pigs into a number
of groups and therefore the number
in any group will be small. Keeping
the groupings together will help
reduce aggression as will providing