{"id":21652,"date":"2018-08-03T10:23:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=21652"},"modified":"2018-08-20T11:55:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T17:55:33","slug":"demonstrating-water-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/demonstrating-water-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonstrating Water Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author: <\/strong>Ken Engele, BSA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference: <\/strong>Centred on Swine Fall 2018, Volume 24, Number 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Research has demonstrated that even when the nipple drinkers are properly adjusted in a finisher barn the pigs will waste 25% of the water. Water wastage on commercial farms from nipple drinkers has been reported to be as high as 40-60%. A recent audit determined that approximately 2\/3 of nipple drinkers provide water volumes that exceed the requirement of the pig, sometimes doubling the required volume.<\/p>\n<p>When considering water conservation, barn evaluations determined that the use of a drinking trough save 60% of water, mainly due to reduced water wastage. The water trough did not impede the performance of the pig.<\/p>\n<p>Potential economic benefits were calculated for a commercial farm that implemented water troughs. Over a 24 week period, water disappearance from water troughs was 20% less than from traditional nipple drinkers. For one year and 170 pigs the difference in water disappearance with a trough set up would be 89,250 L.\u00a0 As well considering the cost of manure disposal (assuming that the excess water ends up in the pits) there would also be a savings of $343 for 170 pigs.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">Advantages<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">Disadvantages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">Significant water savings<\/p>\n<p>Reduced manure volume<\/p>\n<p>Installed with off-the-shelf components<\/p>\n<p>Improved biosecurity &#8211; less traffic to the barn site<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">One more thing to wash &#8211; corners<\/p>\n<p>Higher potential contamination of water in the trough<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The producer who installed the troughs for the purpose of this study will continue to use the troughs due to the advantages of reduced water usage and decrease manure volume.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Ken Engele, BSA Reference: Centred on Swine Fall 2018, Volume 24, Number 2 Summary: Research has demonstrated that even when the nipple drinkers are properly adjusted in a finisher barn the pigs will waste 25% of the water. Water wastage on commercial farms from nipple drinkers has been reported to be as high as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,931,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre","category-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652","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\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21728,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652\/revisions\/21728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}