PIG RAISING

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PIG RAISING
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A Healthy Environment

• Shade because pig have no sweat gland in their
  skin
• Generally Temp for adult is 10 27 C
• Generally Temp baby pig is 27 32 C

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Environmental

• Pig allow to run lose
• Fencing
• Tethering / animal tied to control
• Building
• Combination of above
• Feeders and Waterers
• Farrowing house

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Nutrition- pig are single stomach able to eat
meat and plant

• Carbohydrate and fat- corn,rice brand, yam,
  potatoes casava banana (70 80 ) pig diet for
  energy
• Protein- fish meal, oil seed provide growth
• Mineral(salt) Calcium, phosphorous for bone and
  tissue growth
• Vitamins growth, reproduce and body function
• Water fresh, good health

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Food preparation

• Grinding
• Soaking
• Cooking
• Chopping (vegetable-fruit)
• Fermenting

Normally, Carbohydrate 70 Protein 30
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Percentage Protein need

• Sows and adult 16
• Baby 0- 15 kg 20
• Baby 15 30 kg 18
• Young 30 60 16

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Select Young Female

• Best milking mother
• Larger litter
• Larger faster growing
• No obvious defect (hernias, health problem
• Minimum well 12 teats
• Desire body type (least fat more meat)
• Purchase from trusted farm

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Selected young male

• Male muscle appearance
• Free from hernias and health and disease problems
• Well formed testicles
• From large litter
• Fast growing
• Not related to your female
• Preferably cross breed

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Reproduction

• Heat (estrus) 1-3 day period, second day is best
  fertilizing
• Heat (estrus) cycle 19 21 days

Breeding

• Natural
• Artificial

Length of pregnancy is 114 days
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Sign of approaching Farrowing time

• 2-3 weeks breast enlarged
• 5-7 days farrowing valva enlarged
• 24 48 hours milk appear in teats
• 12 -24 hours very nervous, restless and carry dry
  leaf to make bed, may need inject Oxytocine to
  help make delivery easier

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Helping new born

• Remove from membranes
• Wipe mucus from month and nose
• Clip navel cord 1-2 inches, dip in iodine, if
  bleeding, tie navel cord with cotton string
• Clip tail (1-2 inches)
• If weather is cool put in box with light bulb
• Must nurse as soon as possible (maximum 12 hours)
  
• Iron injection
• Cut teeth

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Castrating

• Male baby should be castrated around 2-4 week of
  age (while nursing)
• To prevent odor in meat
• To prevent the nuisance of the boars not needed
  for breeding
• Some think castrated males grow faster

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Weaning

• In natural state, sows wean their babies when
  they are around 8 10 weeks old
• In modern operations pigs are weaned early at 3-5
  weeks

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Basic sanitation

• Location High with drainage
• Rotate
• Food and water
• Building E-W
• Germ killing lye-0.45 per water 10 gallons ,
  chorine
• Vaccinate
• Treat parasites

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Common disease

• Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)
• Diarrhea
• Pneumonia
• Anemia
• Skin infection

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Injection

• Subcutaneous (SQ)
• Intramuscular (IM)

• SQ
• Baby 18 or 20 5/8 or ½
• Young 16 or 18 5/8 or 1/4
• Adult 14 or 16 1 or 1/2

• IM
• Baby 18 or 20 ½
• Young 16 or 3/4
• Adult 14 or 16 1

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Natural Farming - Pigs
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Purpose and Process
To transform farmer from laborer to manager
To utilize agricultural waste
To make natural fertilizer
To make high protein feed
To sell value added products
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Natural Pig Farming Cycle
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Pig Pen Bedding
Dig pen floor 90 cm deep
Add bedding in 2 layers
Mix bedding material with soil from pen
- Rice hulls, sawdust, etc.
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Charcoal 10
Cow manure 10
Salt 1 - 2 Kg
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Add 1 - 2 bags white leaf mold concentrate
Mix FFJ / FPJ in water (2T per 10L) - Spray on
bedding
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Fill second layer to top
Use same bedding mixture as first layer
Cover with a thin layer of rice hulls or other
material
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Home made products used in Natural Pig Farming
1. FPJ
2. FFJ
3. FAA
4. Calcium
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5. White leaf mold
6. Salt
7. Pig gum
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9. Traditional remedies / herbs
Control worms with herbal medicine egg plant
Diarrhea guava leaves, mangosteen peels,
persimmon leaves, green bananas
Prevent disease with herbs
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Pig Drinking Water
FFJ / FPJ 2T Herb Hormone
Mix in 10L water. Free choice all day.
Clean water tank every day. Inspect drink valve
for water flow. Install 1 drink valve per 5 pigs.
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Pig Feed
1. Fresh plant material for pig feed 100 Kg
Sugar 4 Kg Rock salt 1 Kg. Pickle in bucket 3
days.
2. Commercial food 30 kg
3. Soybean cake 1 Kg per meal
1 2 Pickled plant material 70 Kg
commercial feed 30 Kg.
Total 100 Kg. cost 5 THB/Kg
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Feed twice a day (2-5 kilograms). Feed fresh
grass / green vegetables every day, up to 1 Kg /
pig.
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Capital investment per pig
Market weight 100 Kg (4-5 months)
Feed cost per pig for 5 months 1500
Average cost per piglet 1000 THB
Total cost per pig 2500 THB
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Care of natural farming pigs
1. Dig mix the bedding every week. - Add
bedding material as needed.
2. Spray bedding with fermented juice
minimum once a week
3. Feed pigs with pig gum to chew relaxing
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4. Add charcoal and salt to increase mineral
5. Give fresh grass green vegetables. - (1
Kg / pig)
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6. When pigs are 3 months old, begin removing
soiled bedding to make natural fertilizer.
Replace with new bedding mixture. You can do this
once a week.
7. Clean up inside and around the pig pen to keep
things tidy.
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