{"id":19351,"date":"2017-05-12T13:29:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19351"},"modified":"2017-05-12T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:29:45","slug":"optimizing-loose-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/optimizing-loose-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"OPTIMIZING LOOSE HOUSING"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 21\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>In most of European countries, group housing has been mandatory since 2013. Since the legislation is part of a European directive, member states may adopt stricter-than-national provisions. This can lead to additions or minor deviations. The majority of member states, however, have adopted the requirements unchanged.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 21\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Loose housing can be done in different ways, such as:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Crates with free access<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Small groups of 6-8 sows<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Larger groups of 20-30 sows with long trough<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Electronic Sow Feeding (ESF)<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 27\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>To optimize a loose housing system with ESF, one-way routing for the sows is preferable. Panel division between laying areas should not be too high. It is important to teach gilts social skills in early stages so they become well socialized sows in any group housing system. To keep sows in good condition during pregnancy, an individual feeding system can optimize productivity. This is also important during lactation. This will becomes a greater challenge if sow productivity increases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most of European countries, group housing has been mandatory since 2013. Since the legislation is part of a European directive, member states may adopt stricter-than-national provisions. This can lead to additions or minor deviations. The majority of member states, however, have adopted the requirements unchanged. Loose housing can be done in different ways, such [&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-19351","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\/19351","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=19351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19352,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19351\/revisions\/19352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}