Pig farming
In pig farming the specialists of Agro-Soyuz:
- Adopted a technology of housing in non-heated hoop structures on deep bedding;
- Re-designed the premises for farrowing and nursery;
- Developed an experimental model farm — commercial grow/finish facility, which can produce
24-26 thousand pigs per year.
The experimental pig farming facility represents a full-cycle pork producing enterprise, where a continuous system of intensive reproduction and cold housing during the grow/finish stage is used.
The technology of cold housing of animals allows to:
- Reduce construction costs compared with permanent barns, which are used under conventional technologies of pig farming;
- Save on heating and lighting;
- Improve animals’ health, thus reducing costs for medication;
- Ensure high growth rate;
- Reduce costs at grow/finish stage.
The farm implements a technology of continuous pork production with a
The implemented technologies, high producing pig breeds and process management allowed Model agricultural enterprise «Agro-Soyuz» to achieve the following performance indicators:
- Growth period — 190 days;
- Duration of the grow/finish stage — 120 days;
- ROA -> 50%;
- Conception rate — 87%;
- Fecundity — 11+ pigs per farrowing;
- Feed conversion ratio — 3,0 kg of feed / 1 kg of gain.