{"id":19323,"date":"2017-05-11T14:48:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T20:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19323"},"modified":"2017-05-11T14:48:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T20:48:37","slug":"practical-labour-tips-to-improve-piglet-survivability-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/practical-labour-tips-to-improve-piglet-survivability-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PRACTICAL LABOUR TIPS TO IMPROVE PIGLET SURVIVABILITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Sanitation\n<ul>\n<li>Prepping a room\n<ul>\n<li>Remove all left-over feed.<\/li>\n<li>Scrape down manure.<\/li>\n<li>Wet down the entire penning and floors, degrease, and allow to sit for 30\u00a0minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Then wash the entire room, including walls.<\/li>\n<li>Once this is completed, do a final rinse, and when you are satisfied with the\u00a0cleanliness, disinfect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>When is a room considered ready to load sows?\n<ul>\n<li>The next morning, once it is dry.<\/li>\n<li>Never before maintenance is done, including water nipples, heat lamps,\u00a0ventilation and inlets, and any damage that could cause discomfort to the sows\u00a0and pigs.<\/li>\n<li>All crates include a 12\u201dx12\u201d black rubber mat, set directly under the side heat\u00a0lamp, which is set at 18\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>All crates include a back lamp that is turned on 3 days prior to due date, and shut\u00a0off after processing, to discourage piglets from laying there. There is also a side\u00a0lamp that remains on the entire time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Feeding Sows and Pre &amp; Post Farrowing\n<ul>\n<li>Feeding the Sows\n<ul>\n<li>All sows come to the crates with their individual cards and their previous feed card.<\/li>\n<li>All information regarding the sow is documented and is very valuable to the farrowing\u00a0technician.<\/li>\n<li>Information on the cards include early\/late farrowings, savaging, history of\u00a0stillborns, illness, quality of teats and underlines, good milker, good mom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Standard Operating Procedures \u2013 Day One and onward<\/li>\n<li>The People behind the Pigs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanitation Prepping a room Remove all left-over feed. Scrape down manure. Wet down the entire penning and floors, degrease, and allow to sit for 30\u00a0minutes. Then wash the entire room, including walls. Once this is completed, do a final rinse, and when you are satisfied with the\u00a0cleanliness, disinfect. When is a room considered ready to [&hellip;]<\/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-19323","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\/19323","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=19323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19324,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions\/19324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}