Virtual Niche Farm Tours - Iowa Pork...Lyle Rossiter, Allee Farm Manager. Spring Farrowing Group...
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Virtual Niche Farm Tours
Compiled by Dave Stender
ISU Swine Field Specialist
Eight Farms Visited
• Gathered 5 giga-bites of audio and visual information
• Trying to learn about new ideas – trade management secrets
Innovation - records
Pasture Farrow in Summer
New Lactation Feeding System
More Effort in Feeder Adjustment in Response to High Feed Prices
Modified Outdoor Farrowing
Portable Corral
Portable Corral
Portable Corral
John
Door in a Door
Group Lactation
Wheels for the Hut
Innovative Shed Scraper
Big Bale Pusher
Welcome to The Martin Kramer Farm
Inside the Farrowing Hoop Barn
Handy Access
Sow Huts
Pig creep area
The Hut
Good Environment to
Farrow Pigs
Thermostats
Hot Water Heat
Summer Cooling
Box fan installed in the back of the hut.
Free Stall Pens
Directed Air Flow Important to Summer Farrowing Success
Pig Finishing
Shed within the Barn
Finishing Space Within the Finishing Barn
ISU Allee Demonstration Farm Lyle Rossiter, Allee Farm Manager
Spring Farrowing Group Lactation
Fall Farrowing
Hoop Pigs
Developing a System
Summer Hoop Farrowing
December Hoop Nursery • Cover Sleeping Area
• Draft free
• Cover material
• Deep bedding
• December and January mild temperatures
Farrowing Barn
Lean-to building 30’ by 80’
Radiant Tube Heater
150,000 Btu/hr, 62’ long
$2306
Heat Lamps – 250 W
Allee Farrowing Barn
• Radiant Tube Exhaust
• Exhaust Fan 16”
• Double doors to move huts with skidloader
• Farrowing/Nursery
Farrowing Systems During Cold Weather
To Water and Feed
3’ Creep Area
6’ by 7’ Huts with open back
Tube Radiant Heater
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Farrowing Systems During Cold Weather
Radiant
Tube
Heater
Two
Rows of
Huts,
Back to
Back
Creep
Area
Between
Huts
ISU Allee Farm
Farrowing Behavior
Piglet Comfort Zones
Gestation Gilts Fed in Individual Stalls
Thank-you