Management of pig farms with Drinker

     According to the January 1999 "international pig" magazine, 40 percent of northern Sweden farm survey found that lactating sows drinking water flow with no one able to meet the requirements needed to sow water intake.

     Dr. John Carr United States Iowa State University survey of 200 farms were found in 68 kinds of problems and 47 species of common problems, eight kinds of unusual, 13 kinds of rare. So far, we have not found a farm water supply system does not exist any problem. In addition to salt poisoning occurs outside of eight farms, other farms are not aware of their water supply system problem. Research process, 57 pork producers asked "What phenomenon can be judged from the water supply system is a problem?" On this issue, the most common answer is "pigs stop eating." In fact, if you observe this phenomenon, then at least it has been without water 24 hours a.

    French researchers found that a quarter of the amount above which sows bladder abnormalities in the slaughter of sows, in their view, a serious infection of the sow farms have nearly two-thirds died of a bladder infection. Because in some European countries in order to reduce the cost of manure handling, and to pregnant sows restrictions on drinking water, resulting in the concentration of substances in the urine is relatively high, minerals reach saturation point becomes faster, it will appear in the urine precipitation. Since the stimulation of the bladder mucosa layer, it is easy to cause urinary tract infection, which is a major cause of sows death.

     Dr. John Carr in the survey also found that many farms drinkers wrong angle, causing the pigs drinking water, waste increase. Drinking prolonged. Drinking can also cause excessive wear and shorten the service life. Long-term consumption of drinking bad angle, pigs will exhibit facial deformation, similar to the symptoms of atrophic rhinitis. In addition, the location of drinking water does not meet drinking should be left between each other with an obstacle or a pig drinking at least a body length away. Then the water flow rate can not meet the needs, the performance of any pigs spend 10 minutes a day or more time to drink water. Summer is also common and some pig will only affect other pigs drinking. Dominant pigs wallow before drinking, affect the status of other groups of pigs less water. More prone to this problem stocking density is too large.

    Also check the production staff have seen drinking a drop of water to flow out, he said that drinking is normal, which is really disappointing. In many farms where sows the water supply is not as good as pigs, and production staff still insist that sow feed intake is not enough because of a disease, not because of lack of water. Failure to deal with the water supply system at the time, there are few farms will take active measures for cleaning, maintenance and repair, only passively replace the failed drinkers.

    Tap flow 175 ml / min 450 ml / min water intake feed consumption 0.78 1.32 303 341 210 250 increasing feed conversion rate 1.48 1.37 4.46 2.93 Water with time

. Questions like these have to make us the seriousness of the problems in the water supply system to do a thorough thinking and the water supply system to make a comprehensive and thorough examination. Dr. John Carr also proposed to improve the water supply system does not guarantee that the herd will be healthy, but in improving the water supply system after many farms herd health status have been improved, the incidence of clinical decline. Of particular note is that there are 20 farms are plagued by chronic pyelonephritis, and improve the water supply after the disease disappeared.