As with any type of marketable livestock, producers are always trying new methods of making their animals reach market weight faster and efficiently. Schauer Agrotonic GmbH, a company specializing in electronic sow feeding equipment, has teamed up with Automated Production Systems to provide their services to pork producers in the United States.
With this type of system, the animals can walk stress free into the controlled entry gate, and with the technology of automatic animal identification, the feeding equipment will know when and how much feed this one particular animal is allowed. Besides this systems efficiency in getting pigs to market in a timely manner, it helps with the maternal characteristics as well. This system will guarantee larger litters with heavier birth weights, safe and swift farrowing, and will the sows or gilts to be more prolific, being able to raise more parities or litters in a more correct body condition.
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