Choosing the right slatted flooring in farrowing crates could increase sow comfort and reduce shoulder pressure
\nlesions. That\u2019s one of the observations coming out of a study by Kathy Zurbrigg, a surveillance analyst with the
\nOntario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. The study set out to determine if a human pressure measurement system could be effectively used to measure the pressure exerted on a sow\u2019s shoulder when it lays down to
\nfarrow and nurse. Tests were conducted using two types of farrowing crate flooring \u2013 cast iron and triangular bar. It was found that the triangular bar flooring has narrower slats and wider slots (the openings between slats) than the cast iron slatted floor,\u201d the study\u2019s author observed. \u201cThe resulting decreased surface area for contact with the shoulder increases the pressure exerted on those areas that contact the slats, particularly the bony prominence of the scapula, because there is less surface area over which to distribute the sow\u2019s weight. In this study, the addition of a rubber mat over part
\nof the farrowing crate floor significantly reduced the contact areas of the sow\u2019s shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Choosing the right slatted flooring in farrowing crates could increase sow comfort and reduce shoulder pressure lesions. That\u2019s one of the observations coming out of a study by Kathy Zurbrigg, a surveillance analyst with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. The study set out to determine if a human pressure measurement system […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[928],"tags":[8882,156,9628,6619,19644,12670,5886,103,1468,6620,171,20007,111,2771,3555,2856,6621,803,13152,24134,104,13299,1422,20911,1579,6053,1301,27281,24135],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welfare","tag-al","tag-comfort","tag-contact","tag-crate","tag-dd","tag-down","tag-farrow","tag-farrowing","tag-farrowing-crates","tag-feet","tag-floor","tag-gh","tag-health","tag-iron","tag-lying","tag-pressure","tag-slats","tag-slatted-floor","tag-slatted-flooring","tag-sound-level","tag-sow","tag-sow-comfort-mat-for-farrowing-crate","tag-surface","tag-t","tag-test","tag-use","tag-weight","tag-welfare","tag-zurbrigg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","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=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11151,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/11151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}