Sows
To develop the best feeding program for your sow herd, we look at key things like:
- breeding and farrowing performance
- sow body condition and structure
- feed and water consumption
- feed cost per piglet weaned and other weaning data
Nursery
Once piglets get to the nursery, they need to get on feed as soon as possible. This is an important growth stage, so we look at:
- the right type and amounts of minerals and nutrients
- feeder adjustment
- feed quality
- available space at the feeder
Grow-finish
This is where the bulk of the dollars are spent in hog production, and we’ve got a proven track record in helping producers get each pig out the door as efficiently and profitably as possible. At this stage, we focus on:
- highest growth rate, feed intake and efficiency that work best with for your barn
- rations that match the genetic line potential of your pigs
- meeting grading grid requirements for the best return on marketed animals
In all phases of production and lifecycle, we assess the barn environment, air quality, and pig flow to make recommendations for production improvement.
We analyze every ingredient in your feed, so rations are targeted to the stage of life the pigs are at. Over-formulating means wasting money; under-formulating means losing performance so having the right nutrition is very important.
And we’re familiar with SwineBooks so we know how to look at all the data in your barn’s system and we can explain what it means and how you can use it to improve your production.