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    Fattening Pigs - Feeding & Management (PART 2)

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    This document discusses best practices for feeding and managing fattening pigs on farms in the Philippines. It explains that feeding programs should be tailored based on farm type and pig age/weight. Key performance indicators for evaluating farm effectiveness include age/weight at sale, average daily gain, and feed conversion ratio. The document also discusses optimizing the barn environment and respecting space allowances for fattening pigs.

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    This document discusses best practices for feeding and managing fattening pigs on farms in the Philippines. It explains that feeding programs should be tailored based on farm type and pig age/weight. Key performance indicators for evaluating farm effectiveness include age/weight at sale, average daily gain, and feed conversion ratio. The document also discusses optimizing the barn environment and respecting space allowances for fattening pigs.

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    This document discusses best practices for feeding and managing fattening pigs on farms in the Philippines. It explains that feeding programs should be tailored based on farm type and pig age/weight. Key performance indicators for evaluating farm effectiveness include age/weight at sale, average daily gain, and feed conversion ratio. The document also discusses optimizing the barn environment and respecting space allowances for fattening pigs.

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    Fattening Pigs - Feeding & Management (PART 2)

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    This document discusses best practices for feeding and managing fattening pigs on farms in the Philippines. It explains that feeding programs should be tailored based on farm type and pig age/weight. Key performance indicators for evaluating farm effectiveness include age/weight at sale, average daily gain, and feed conversion ratio. The document also discusses optimizing the barn environment and respecting space allowances for fattening pigs.

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    FATTENING PIGS - FEEDING & MANAGEMENT

    (PART 2)
    This guide helps to deal with the fattening pig management, which is a recurring question among
    farmers in the Philippines.

    How to optimize your fattening pig environment & feeding to increase your farm economic
    performance?

    In this second part of this guide, we will dive into the importance of technical management and
    feeding conditions to ensure the high technical performance of your fattening pages. The first
    part gets you covered on the housing & key growth curves to optimize your fattening pig growth.

    Without further ado, let’s review feeding and management best practices for fattening pigs.

    A feeding program for fattening pigs that should be tailored


    to the type of farm
    Feeding pigs in the fattening phase depends mainly on two factors:

     Farm type (backyard, standard or high performing)


     Age & weight of the pig

    Please find below customized feed intake and duration based on the criteria above.
    Improve the pigs’ homogeneity management
    The gestion of pigs’ homogeneity is very important for maximizing the technical performances of the
    pigs in the fattening phase. Check out below our advices:
    Managing your pigs imply to track key performance indicators to gauge how effective is your
    raising.  Basically, there are three main indicators used to determine the effectiveness of your farm:

     Age & weight on sale


     Average Daily Gain in Fattening (ADG)
     Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR)

    Here are the main key performance indicators for each indicator:
    FATTENING PIGS - ANIMAL & HOUSING
    CONDITIONS (PART 1)
    This guide helps to deal with the fattening pig management, which is a recurring question among
    farmers in the Philippines.

    How to optimize your fattening pig environment & feeding to increase your farm economic
    performance?

    In this first part of this guide, we will get you covered on the housing & key growth curves to
    optimize your fattening pig growth.  In the second part, we will dive into the importance of
    technical management and feeding conditions to ensure the high technical performance of your
    fattening pages.

    Without further ado, let’s review growth potential curves and housing conditions that need to be
    optimized to ensure an optimum performance of pigs  in the fattening stage.

    Growth potential for pigs in the fattening stage


    It is essential to have a good quality of piglets upon the birth and also a good growth in nursery.

    Here are some indicators of body development of fattening’s pigs to watch out:
    Growth curve of fattening pages varies depending on the tropical conditions, feeding and also on the
    pigs’ environmental conditions.

    Respect the space allowance required for fattening pigs


    Fattening pigs need an optimal barn environment to allow them to get weight at an optimal rate and
    decrease the risk of health issues.

    Here are the main criteria to respect:

    Optimizing the barn environment of fattening pigs is only one component to ensure their optimum
    performance. Management and feeding are two other elements that influence its growth.

    Stay tuned for the second part of this guide that will deal with the management and feeding of
    fattening pigs

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