Loose housing pig breeding
facilities
This facility provides for two
stockpeople to breed 2 sows at the same time.
The sows to check have no boar
contact for at least 1 hour before checking.
Place the sows in the premating
arena.
Sows are individually run into
the mating pen.
Sows are exposed to the boars and
if they are in oestrus they should stand within 30 seconds of boar exposure.
Sows which are clearly not in
oestrus are run straight through the mating arena into the post-mating arena.
Note it is essential to keep the
boars interested. This is enhanced by
the post-mating boar.
The presence of the post-mating
boar allows the breeding to be accomplished within 3 minutes of boar exposure.
Utilise a bike spring to encourage standing behaviour.
Using this technique it is
possible to mate 24 sows an hour – 12 per stockperson.
Photographs of the mating
arena
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Sows in the pre-mating area |
Boar in boar pen with gate holder |
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General view of mating area, boar and post-mating |
Post mating pen |