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GOLDEN RULES For beginner and small herd pig farmers

GOLDEN RULES For beginner and small herd pig farmers. Seven important headings: Marketing Breeding Housing Feeding Welfare Health Biosecurity. Marketing. Make sure there is someone who is going to buy your pigs and pay for them; Decide which type of pig you are going to sell: Weaners

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GOLDEN RULES For beginner and small herd pig farmers

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  1. GOLDEN RULESFor beginner and small herd pig farmers Seven important headings: Marketing Breeding Housing Feeding Welfare Health Biosecurity

  2. Marketing • Make sure there is someone who is going to buy your pigs and pay for them; • Decide which type of pig you are going to sell: • Weaners • Porkers, or • Baconers 3. Make sure you can finance all the expenses until your first pigs are ready to sell

  3. Records are important Tattoos are compusoryInformal records are OK

  4. Breeding • Decide what type of pig will suit your farm best; • Don’t buy other people’s problems • Plan a program that is going to fit your resources – • Cash • Feed • housing

  5. Breeds to think about Large WhiteSA Landrace Duroc Kolbrook c

  6. Housing 1, Indoors or outdoors or both; 2. Basic protection against sun and cold does not have to be expensive; 3. Mothers and babies are special and need extra care

  7. Welfare • Pigs must be protected against thirst, hunger, pain, fear, extreme heat and cold, diseases; • Pigs in pens are entirely dependent on their care givers for all their needs; • Certain procedures may be done by stockmen, such as: injecting, tattooing, wound treatment, tail-clipping

  8. Health and disease • Three common problems:- 1. Malnutrition – food is too little, too watery, rotten or toxic; • 2. Scours (diarrhoea) in young pigs • 3. Mange: itchy diseased skin – pigs of all ages

  9. Biosecurity • 1. Diseases are spread mainly by pigs, people, bad food, vehicles, workers; • 2. Protect your pigs with: pig-proof fence, locked gate, healthy replacement stock, no speculators on site; Never feed swill from restaurants or harbours or food that contains animal tissues ; 3. Use the help that is available from Veterinarians, nutritionists, animal scientists .

  10. Disinfection must be well doneGood fences payControlled accessTransport vehicles must be clean

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