AGRC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Crop Rotation, Permafrost, Ammonia
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Total depoluation and disinfection and repopulation rooms within a facility for de ned groups of pigs as they move through the production process. You are managing the animals as a group. This reduced disease problems and the use of medication, and allows more closely tailored feeding practices. Diets are designed t the speci c age of animals as a means of gaining more ef cient use of feed. In a very homogeneous groups, 7-12 closely tailored feeding formulations may be used. There are many different phases of diets which are able to give the right diet to the piglets, the typical characteristic are high in milk solids, diary milk solids. High quality protein, and other very expensive diets. The components are gradually being phased out with other ones since they are so expensive and they don"t need these the older they get. Return to estrus - 5 days ( going back into heat) Farrow to farrow - about 150 days.
