Flooring For Weaned Pigs

Growket modular flooring systems for farrowing and weaning are combined to adapt to different pen designs.

Flooring for weaned pigs. A flat solid floor is usually made from cement but not polished to avoid slipping or from hard soil. Thermal comfort for little pigs in cold wean to finish barn. By feeding surplus garden vegetables table scraps and some grain they ll grow up to 200 pounds in 20 weeks. Made of high quality plastic triangular rod and cast iron.

This attracts piglets to sleep away from the sow and it greatly reduces crush kill. Excelerator nursery floor is a high impact virgin polypropylene slat for pigs up to 75 pounds. Comfort clean flexible keeping your pigs comfortable and clean is the primary objective of all farmweld sow and pig flooring products. Aco funki offers a complete flooring program for pig barns.

There is a wide range of slats of various sizes and surfaces. The advantage nursery floor is for pigs up to 150 pounds and has 1 4 gap perimeter that is easy to power wash clean. Tests conducted by double l show that producers using the 4 x 6 wean to finish pig mat can use 36 less energy to maintain the pig s body temperature 105 degrees versus a pig lying on a concrete floor. Per piglet 0 3 0 5 sqm.

Nooyen weaning products piglets are particularly sensitive immediately after weaning. Hog helper mats insulate slatted floors which eliminates chilling drafts resulting in a warm surface that provides better creep comfort. Six week old pigs already weaned can be bought by mail. It starts with our sow platforms and nursery flooring systems made of state of the art polypropylene to ensure long term durability.

The new premier nursery floor has a bright lime green color for easy scour detection of pigs up to 120 pounds. Using a double layer of mats in the center position raises the sow for easier access to teats for nursing. Flooring must be suitable for the size and weight of pigs and where no bedding is provided must form a rigid even and stable surface. For pig welfare and health flooring must be smooth but not slippery and designed constructed and maintained so as not to cause injury or suffering to pigs standing or bedding on it.

Per boar 6 8 sqm. They are comfortable and hygienic achieving the proper disposal of slurry. Wean to finish from weaning to slaughter in a same phase improves animal health because stress caused by the moving to the finishing facilities is. Our plastic and cast iron slats have been on the market for 30 years and they are under constant development and optimization.