We have identified\u00a0several opportunities associated with the implementation of electronic sow feeding for the\u00a0improvement of sow herd nutrition and management. This includes improved feed\u00a0utilization by the reduction of feed needed to maintain individual animal body condition,\u00a0better matching of feed delivered to changing nutritional needs of sow during gestation\u00a0through the use of software controlled feeding curves, automated control of gilt estrus via the\u00a0delivery of Matrix to selected individual animals feeding in the ESF station, and a practical
\nsolution to regulating the amount and timing of a feedback program in pen gestation to\u00a0stimulate immunization against autogenous pathogens. The electronic identification of the\u00a0sows via an RFID tag also opens the door for additional digital management of the herd such\u00a0as spray marking of animals requiring vaccination or selection of animals to move to\u00a0farrowing. However, these advantages of ESF cannot be captured without some forethought\u00a0on how the barn will be staffed, how these people will be trained, and gilts will enter the herd\u00a0both at start-up and for the rest of the life of the ESF facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have identified\u00a0several opportunities associated with the implementation of electronic sow feeding for the\u00a0improvement of sow herd nutrition and management. This includes improved feed\u00a0utilization by the reduction of feed needed to maintain individual animal body condition,\u00a0better matching of feed delivered to changing nutritional needs of sow during gestation\u00a0through the use of software controlled feeding curves, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19312,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311\/revisions\/19312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}