{"id":19325,"date":"2017-05-11T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19325"},"modified":"2017-05-11T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:00:23","slug":"electronic-sowfeeding-slat-level-considerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/electronic-sowfeeding-slat-level-considerations\/","title":{"rendered":"ELECTRONIC SOWFEEDING: SLAT-LEVEL CONSIDERATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic sow feeding (ESF) is the only alternative to gestation stalls that provides true\u00a0individual animal nutrition. For producers with high production expectations, it is likely\u00a0the best choice. ESF also promises the opportunity to further automate sow management\u00a0(eg spray marking of animals requiring vaccination or selection of animals needing to\u00a0move to farrowing). ESF farms are pushing above 30 pigs weaned per sow per year and\u00a0thus the technology itself, if properly managed, is not a barrier to outstanding production.<\/p>\n<p>SLAT LEVEL CONSIDERATIONS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Parity Segregation<\/li>\n<li>Group Structure\n<ul>\n<li>Dynamic<\/li>\n<li>Static<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Time of Group Formation\n<ul>\n<li>Pre-Implantation<\/li>\n<li>Post-Implantation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Design of Pens\n<ul>\n<li>Space allowance<\/li>\n<li>Feeder capacity<\/li>\n<li>Pen size<\/li>\n<li>Pen shape<\/li>\n<li>Pen dividers<\/li>\n<li>Solid laying areas<\/li>\n<li>Waterer placements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic sow feeding (ESF) is the only alternative to gestation stalls that provides true\u00a0individual animal nutrition. For producers with high production expectations, it is likely\u00a0the best choice. ESF also promises the opportunity to further automate sow management\u00a0(eg spray marking of animals requiring vaccination or selection of animals needing to\u00a0move to farrowing). ESF farms are pushing [&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-19325","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\/19325","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=19325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19326,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325\/revisions\/19326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}