What are the benefits of ecological pig farming and the key points of its technical management?

As modern people's living standards improve, the demands on quality of life are also getting higher and higher. When it comes to food, everything must be natural and organic. So now ecological pig farming is being promoted. What are the benefits of ecological pig farming? What are its management techniques and key points? Let's take a look together below.

Benefits of ecological pig farming

1. It solves the problem of difficult manure handling in the pig production process.

The manure is degraded and converted by beneficial microorganisms in the bedding through fermentation into bacterial cell protein, providing nutritional supplement feed for the pigs. There is no odor in the barn and few mosquitoes and flies, solving the problem of environmental pollution in the construction of new rural areas.

2. It reduces stress and improves pork quality.

Ecological pig farming, combined with special pig barns, makes all conditions in the barn suitable for pig growth. Together with increased exercise, the pigs can grow and develop healthily, their disease resistance is enhanced, and the incidence of disease is reduced. The use of antibiotics and antibacterial drugs is not advocated, which improves pork quality and produces truly organic pork.

3. Labor production efficiency is greatly improved.

Ecological pig farming technology does not require washing the pig barn with water, thus saving a large amount of water, saving 75%-90% of water; pigs have fewer pathogens in their bodies, reducing investment in disease treatment; the use of automatic feeding, automatic drinking water technology and many other advantages achieves the goal of saving labor and costs. Since cleaning the pig pens is eliminated, this alone can save nearly 50% of labor.

4. It increases the growth rate of pigs.

It overcomes the adverse factors of winter cold on pig farming. According to experimental evidence, the average feeding period can be shortened by 10-15 days, and each pig can save about 50 jin of feed.

5. Turning waste into treasure and improving the rural ecological environment.

It provides a way out for solving the problem of straw burning and piling up—experimental data shows that every 10 sq m of fermentation bed can use one mu of corn straw.

Management techniques and key points of ecological pig farming

1. The selection of the breeding farm site must be scientific.

A newly built pig farm should be located in a place with high and dry terrain, good drainage, easy organization of epidemic prevention, and no surrounding pollution. The land used for the site should comply with the requirements of the local land use plan. It should have clean, pollution-free production water and drinking water sources, and be far away from major traffic routes, residential areas, and markets. Around the pig farm (within 7km), there must be no large chemical plants, mining plants, leather processing plants, meat processing plants, slaughterhouses, or other livestock farms.

2. Introduction of breeding stock.

When breeding pigs need to be introduced, they should be introduced from breeding pig farms with a breeding livestock and poultry business license, and quarantined according to relevant regulations; for production pig farms that only carry out fattening, when introducing piglets, they should be introduced from pig farms that meet pollution-free standards; introduced breeding pigs should be isolated and observed for 15 to 30 days, and only after veterinary inspection confirms they are healthy and qualified can they be used for breeding; breeding pigs must not be introduced from epidemic areas.

3. Adopt reasonable feeding and production methods:

1. Feed nutrition must be comprehensive and of good quality. Different formulated feeds should be used according to the nutritional needs of pigs at different stages.

2. The feeding procedure must be reasonable.

3. The stocking density must be reasonable, and must not be too high, so as to avoid reducing the disease resistance of the pigs.

4. The weaning age of piglets should be determined according to nutritional status and feeding technology level, and scientific weaning techniques should be used to prevent the occurrence of diseases such as piglet diarrhea or poor growth.

5. Pay attention to environmental cleanliness and hygiene, heatstroke prevention and cooling, cold prevention and warmth preservation, and keep the pens dry and the pigs quiet.

4. Adopt comprehensive epidemic prevention techniques:

1. It is prohibited to use drugs banned by the state.

2. Use approved and qualified veterinary drugs, feed, and feed additives.

3. Use veterinary drugs reasonably and strictly implement the withdrawal period.

5. Establish a quality and safety traceability system.