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Electronic Sow Feeding Wave of the Future for Gestating Sows

A Research Scientist with the Prairie Swine Centre says electronic sow feeding appears to the wave of the future for gestating sows in Canada.
 
As part of a project conducted on behalf of Swine Innovation Porc conversions from stall housing of gestating sows to group housing have been documented to provide information to assist other producers planning to make the change.
 
Dr. Jennifer Brown, a Research Scientist Ethology with the Prairie Swine Centre, told those on hand earlier this month for a panel discussion on Electronic Sow Feeding, held as part of World Pork Expo, the majority of producers moving to group housing are adopting some form of electronic sow feeding.
 
Dr. Jennifer Brown-Prairie Swine Centre:
 
I think ESF is the wave of the future.
 
People like working with these systems because the automation takes care of a lot of the sow needs and allows for very individual feeding.
 
If you go into these barns you see very consistent body condition and we all know that a consistent body condition will increase productivity and also give you more reliable litters and rebreeding of sows.
 
It adds that degree of control.
 
In the barns that have adopted it we haven't seen any changes in the number of staff.
 
Source : Farmscape

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