Pig Farming Skills Test: How Many Points Can You Score?
(Repost) Take the test: How many points can you score on your pig farming skills?
Author: Peng Guoxiang
Skill Competition Assessment Plan for Large-Scale Pig Farms
1. Breeding and Gestation Stage
1. Feed Portioning: 30 points
Requirements: Accurately use a feed scoop to measure out one meal's feed amount for a pregnant sow (e.g. 900 grams, 1100 grams), with a tolerance of plus or minus 50 grams.
Scoring: ±50 grams (30 points) ±100 grams (15 points) ±150 grams (5 points)
2. Taking Temperature: 10 points
Requirements: Correctly use a thermometer to measure a sow's body temperature.
Deduction items:
Not disinfecting with alcohol, -2 points
Not shaking the mercury column of the thermometer down below 35°C, -10 points
Touching the front end of the thermometer with the hand before inserting it into the sow's rectum, -5 points
Inserting the thermometer too shallowly, or for too short a time, failing to correctly measure the rectal temperature. -10 points
Unable to correctly read the actual measured temperature, -10 points
3. Injection: 10 points
Requirements: Use a 20ml syringe with a 16*38 injection needle, dilute 2 vials of penicillin powder for injection with 20ml of Houttuynia cordata injection, and perform neck intramuscular injection.
Deduction items:
Syringe and needle not disinfected, -2 points
Wrong needle model, -1 point
Penicillin powder not thoroughly diluted, -3 points
Liquid leakage, less than 18ml, -2 points
Wrong neck injection site (beyond the 20cm area behind the sow's ear) -2 points
Injection not deep enough, liquid leakage, or needle bending, -3 points
4. Artificial Insemination: 45 points
Requirements: Complete cleaning, disinfection, catheter insertion, semen infusion, and registration in accordance with the "Artificial Insemination Operating Procedures."
Deduction items:
Not using a boar for estrus stimulation, -5 points
Incomplete cleaning, pig manure remaining on the vulva, -10 points
Inserting the insemination catheter without rinsing the vulva with double distilled water, -5 points
Insemination catheter not locked in place, causing semen backflow, -5 points
Semen backflow without taking effective measures to prevent it, -10 points
Forcefully squeezing the semen bottle, making the insemination time too short (less than 3 minutes), -5 points
Not registering on the on-site record board after insemination, -5 points
5. Ear Notch Identification: 5 points
Requirements: Facing the sow directly, read the sow's ear notch number according to the method of "large on the left, small on the right, three on top, one on the bottom, read left-right-left-right consecutively."
Deduction items: Incorrect, -5 points
2. Farrowing House and Nursery Stage 100 points
1. Sow Intramuscular Injection: 10 points
Requirements: Use a 20ml syringe with a 16*38 injection needle, dilute 2 vials of penicillin powder for injection with 20ml of Houttuynia cordata injection, and perform neck intramuscular injection.
Deduction items:
Syringe and needle not disinfected, -3 points
Wrong needle model, -2 points
Penicillin powder not thoroughly diluted, -5 points
Liquid leakage, less than 18ml, -2 points
Wrong neck injection site (beyond the 20cm area behind the sow's ear) -2 points
Injection not deep enough, liquid leakage, or needle bending, -4 points
2. Piglet Ear Vein Injection (for farrowing house staff): 10 points
Requirements: One person restrains the piglet, one person uses 10ml of glucose solution with a single-use size 5 scalp needle to perform ear vein injection on the piglet.
Deduction items:
Piglet injection site not disinfected, -2 points
Air bubbles entering the blood vessel, -3 points
Not hitting the vein on the first attempt, -5 points
Swelling appearing before the glucose solution has been fully injected, -5 points
3. Intraperitoneal Injection (for nursery staff): 10 points
Requirements: One person holds the weaned piglet upside down by the hind legs, one person uses 20ml of normal saline with a size 7 scalp needle to perform intraperitoneal injection on the weaned piglet.
Deduction items:
Injection site outside the position 2cm lateral to the second pair of teats, -5 points
Injection site not strictly disinfected, -5 points
4. Farrowing Preparation: 20 points
Requirements: All preparatory work completed before the sow farrows.
Deduction items:
Incubator, heating plate or heat lamp, burlap sacks, rags not prepared, -5 points
Not scrubbing the sow's rear quarters with 0.5% potassium permanganate or diluted disinfectant, feces remaining on the vulva, -5 points
Not cleaning the farrowing crate thoroughly and not disinfecting it with a mop and disinfectant solution, -5 points
5. Taking Temperature: 10 points
Requirements: Correctly use a thermometer to measure a sow's body temperature.
Deduction items:
Not disinfecting with alcohol, -2 points
Not shaking the mercury column of the thermometer down below 35°C, -10 points
Touching the front end of the thermometer with the hand before inserting it into the sow's rectum, -5 points
Inserting the thermometer too shallowly, or for too short a time, failing to correctly measure the rectal temperature. -10 points
Unable to correctly read the actual measured temperature, -10 points
6. Teeth Clipping, Tail Docking, Umbilical Cord Cutting, Iron Supplementation, Castration: 35 points
Requirements: Complete the daily work of teeth clipping, tail docking, umbilical cord cutting, iron supplementation, and castration of newborn piglets in accordance with the "Farrowing House Production Operating Procedures."
Deduction items:
Not disinfecting with iodine tincture during teeth clipping, tail docking, umbilical cord cutting, or castration, -10 points
One tooth broken after clipping, -5 points
Bleeding during umbilical cord cutting or bleeding still occurring after ligation with thread, -5 points
Castration incision too large, bleeding, spermatic cord not cleaned thoroughly, -5 points
Injecting 1ml of iron supplement into the inner thigh of the hind leg, iron preparation backflow, -5 points
Needle too large for iron supplementation (9*20), not using one needle per pig, -5 points
7. Uterine Flushing: 10 points
Requirements: Use 200ml of 2% amoxicillin solution to complete cleaning, disinfection, catheter insertion, flushing, and registration.
Deduction items:
Incomplete cleaning, pig manure remaining on the vulva, -5 points
Inserting the insemination catheter without rinsing the vulva with double distilled water, -5 points
8. Ear Notch Identification: 5 points
Requirements: Facing the sow directly, read the sow's ear notch number according to the method of "large on the left, small on the right, three on top, one on the bottom, read left-right-left-right consecutively."
Deduction items: Incorrect, -5 points
3. Growing-Finishing Stage 50 points
1. Injection: 10 points
Requirements: Use a 20ml syringe, dilute 2 vials of penicillin powder for injection with 20ml of Houttuynia cordata injection, and perform neck intramuscular injection.
Deduction items:
Syringe and needle not disinfected, -2 points
Penicillin powder not thoroughly diluted, -3 points
Liquid leakage, less than 18ml, -2 points
Injection not deep enough, liquid leakage, or needle bending, -3 points
2. Taking Temperature: 10 points
Requirements: Correctly use a thermometer to measure a sow's body temperature.
Deduction items:
Not disinfecting with alcohol, -2 points
Not shaking the mercury column of the thermometer down below 35°C, -10 points
Touching the front end of the thermometer with the hand before inserting it into the rectum, -5 points
Inserting the thermometer too shallowly, or for too short a time, failing to correctly measure the rectal temperature. -10 points
Unable to correctly read the actual measured temperature, -10 points
3. Weight Estimation: 30 points
Requirements: Observe the pig's body shape and appearance on site, and accurately estimate the body weight of a certain pig.
Scoring: ±5kg (30 points) ±10kg (15 points) ±15kg (5 points)
4: Veterinary Technician
1. Injection: 10 points
Requirements: Use a 20ml syringe, dilute 2 vials of penicillin powder for injection with 20ml of Houttuynia cordata injection, and perform neck intramuscular injection.
Deduction items:
Syringe and needle not disinfected, -2 points
Penicillin powder not thoroughly diluted, -3 points
Liquid leakage, less than 18ml, -2 points
Injection not deep enough, liquid leakage, or needle bending, -3 points
2. Taking Temperature: 10 points
Requirements: Correctly use a thermometer to measure a sow's body temperature.
Point deductions:
Not disinfecting with alcohol, -2 points
Not shaking the mercury column of the thermometer down below 35°C, -10 points
Touching the front end of the thermometer with the hand before inserting it into the rectum, -5 points
Inserting the thermometer too shallowly, or for too short a time, failing to measure the rectal temperature correctly, -10 points
Being unable to correctly read the actual measured temperature, -10 points
3. Ear notch identification: 5 points
Requirement: Facing the sow directly, read out the sow's ear notch number using the method of "left large, right small; top three, bottom one; read left-right, left-right in sequence."
Point deductions: Incorrect, -5 points
4. Blood collection: 20 points
Requirement: Restrain the sow with a rope, and collect 5ml of blood using the ear vein blood collection method.
Point deductions:
Not disinfecting the blood collection site, -5 points
Blood collection taking too long (5 minutes), -5 points
Collecting too little blood (1ml), -5 points
Not registering the sow's ear number on the blood collection bottle on site, -5 points
5. Necropsy: 25 points
Requirement: Perform on-site necropsy of the sick pig, completely remove the lungs, kidneys, and spleen; conduct post-mortem examination of the kidneys, inguinal lymph nodes, larynx, stomach, bladder, and cecum.
Point deductions:
Slaughtering the sick pig with incomplete bleeding, -3 points
Opening the thoracic cavity with incomplete ribs, or breaking the blade, -3 points
Puncturing the intestines or stomach when opening the abdominal cavity, -3 points
Failing to completely remove the lungs, kidneys, or spleen, -4 points
Failing to conduct post-mortem examination of the kidneys, inguinal lymph nodes, larynx, stomach, bladder, and cecum, -10 points
Not disinfecting the site after completing the necropsy, -2 points
6. Health care medication: 30 points
Requirement: Based on the pig herd's daily feed intake and routine health care medication regimen, calculate the 7-day health care medication amount for a certain pig herd. Weigh accurately and dilute step by step.
Point deductions:
Calculation error, -30 points
Inaccurate weighing, -10 points
Uneven dilution, -5 points
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After reading this post, I could practically be an assessor. Thanks, OP!
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I'd like to borrow this post, thanks
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Hahaha, so detailed, thanks OP!!!
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Very good material.
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Hehe - my own routine practices are just too non-standard!
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Hehe, classic
---------------------
Learning...
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If it were me, oh my, I wouldn't pass
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If pig farms could be this meticulous, I don't think the domestic breeding level would be what it is now.
---------------------
Learned something, thanks OP.
---------------------
Hehe, I'll use this as a reference from now on
Skill Competition Assessment Plan for Large-Scale Pig Farms
1. Breeding and Gestation Stage
1. Feed Portioning: 30 points
Requirements: Accurately use a feed scoop to measure out one meal's feed amount for a pregnant sow (e.g. 900 grams, 1100 grams), with a tolerance of plus or minus 50 grams.
Scoring: ±50 grams (30 points) ±100 grams (15 points) ±150 grams (5 points)
2. Taking Temperature: 10 points
Requirements: Correctly use a thermometer to measure a sow's body temperature.
Deduction items:
Not disinfecting with alcohol, -2 points
Not shaking the mercury column of the thermometer down below 35°C, -10 points
Touching the front end of the thermometer with the hand before inserting it into the sow's rectum, -5 points
Inserting the thermometer too shallowly, or for too short a time, failing to correctly measure the rectal temperature. -10 points
Unable to correctly read the actual measured temperature, -10 points
3. Injection: 10 points
Requirements: Use a 20ml syringe with a 16*38 injection needle, dilute 2 vials of penicillin powder for injection with 20ml of Houttuynia cordata injection, and perform neck intramuscular injection.
Deduction items:
Syringe and needle not disinfected, -2 points
Wrong needle model, -1 point
Penicillin powder not thoroughly diluted, -3 points
Liquid leakage, less than 18ml, -2 points
Wrong neck injection site (beyond the 20cm area behind the sow's ear) -2 points
Injection not deep enough, liquid leakage, or needle bending, -3 points
4. Artificial Insemination: 45 points
Requirements: Complete cleaning, disinfection, catheter insertion, semen infusion, and registration in accordance with the "Artificial Insemination Operating Procedures."
Deduction items:
Not using a boar for estrus stimulation, -5 points
Incomplete cleaning, pig manure remaining on the vulva, -10 points
Inserting the insemination catheter without rinsing the vulva with double distilled water, -5 points
Insemination catheter not locked in place, causing semen backflow, -5 points
Semen backflow without taking effective measures to prevent it, -10 points
Forcefully squeezing the semen bottle, making the insemination time too short (less than 3 minutes), -5 points
Not registering on the on-site record board after insemination, -5 points
5. Ear Notch Identification: 5 points
Requirements: Facing the sow directly, read the sow's ear notch number according to the method of "large on the left, small on the right, three on top, one on the bottom, read left-right-left-right consecutively."
Deduction items: Incorrect, -5 points
2. Farrowing House and Nursery Stage 100 points
1. Sow Intramuscular Injection: 10 points
Requirements: Use a 20ml syringe with a 16*38 injection needle, dilute 2 vials of penicillin powder for injection with 20ml of Houttuynia cordata injection, and perform neck intramuscular injection.
Deduction items:
Syringe and needle not disinfected, -3 points
Wrong needle model, -2 points
Penicillin powder not thoroughly diluted, -5 points
Liquid leakage, less than 18ml, -2 points
Wrong neck injection site (beyond the 20cm area behind the sow's ear) -2 points
Injection not deep enough, liquid leakage, or needle bending, -4 points
2. Piglet Ear Vein Injection (for farrowing house staff): 10 points
Requirements: One person restrains the piglet, one person uses 10ml of glucose solution with a single-use size 5 scalp needle to perform ear vein injection on the piglet.
Deduction items:
Piglet injection site not disinfected, -2 points
Air bubbles entering the blood vessel, -3 points
Not hitting the vein on the first attempt, -5 points
Swelling appearing before the glucose solution has been fully injected, -5 points
3. Intraperitoneal Injection (for nursery staff): 10 points
Requirements: One person holds the weaned piglet upside down by the hind legs, one person uses 20ml of normal saline with a size 7 scalp needle to perform intraperitoneal injection on the weaned piglet.
Deduction items:
Injection site outside the position 2cm lateral to the second pair of teats, -5 points
Injection site not strictly disinfected, -5 points
4. Farrowing Preparation: 20 points
Requirements: All preparatory work completed before the sow farrows.
Deduction items:
Incubator, heating plate or heat lamp, burlap sacks, rags not prepared, -5 points
Not scrubbing the sow's rear quarters with 0.5% potassium permanganate or diluted disinfectant, feces remaining on the vulva, -5 points
Not cleaning the farrowing crate thoroughly and not disinfecting it with a mop and disinfectant solution, -5 points
5. Taking Temperature: 10 points
Requirements: Correctly use a thermometer to measure a sow's body temperature.
Deduction items:
Not disinfecting with alcohol, -2 points
Not shaking the mercury column of the thermometer down below 35°C, -10 points
Touching the front end of the thermometer with the hand before inserting it into the sow's rectum, -5 points
Inserting the thermometer too shallowly, or for too short a time, failing to correctly measure the rectal temperature. -10 points
Unable to correctly read the actual measured temperature, -10 points
6. Teeth Clipping, Tail Docking, Umbilical Cord Cutting, Iron Supplementation, Castration: 35 points
Requirements: Complete the daily work of teeth clipping, tail docking, umbilical cord cutting, iron supplementation, and castration of newborn piglets in accordance with the "Farrowing House Production Operating Procedures."
Deduction items:
Not disinfecting with iodine tincture during teeth clipping, tail docking, umbilical cord cutting, or castration, -10 points
One tooth broken after clipping, -5 points
Bleeding during umbilical cord cutting or bleeding still occurring after ligation with thread, -5 points
Castration incision too large, bleeding, spermatic cord not cleaned thoroughly, -5 points
Injecting 1ml of iron supplement into the inner thigh of the hind leg, iron preparation backflow, -5 points
Needle too large for iron supplementation (9*20), not using one needle per pig, -5 points
7. Uterine Flushing: 10 points
Requirements: Use 200ml of 2% amoxicillin solution to complete cleaning, disinfection, catheter insertion, flushing, and registration.
Deduction items:
Incomplete cleaning, pig manure remaining on the vulva, -5 points
Inserting the insemination catheter without rinsing the vulva with double distilled water, -5 points
8. Ear Notch Identification: 5 points
Requirements: Facing the sow directly, read the sow's ear notch number according to the method of "large on the left, small on the right, three on top, one on the bottom, read left-right-left-right consecutively."
Deduction items: Incorrect, -5 points
3. Growing-Finishing Stage 50 points
1. Injection: 10 points
Requirements: Use a 20ml syringe, dilute 2 vials of penicillin powder for injection with 20ml of Houttuynia cordata injection, and perform neck intramuscular injection.
Deduction items:
Syringe and needle not disinfected, -2 points
Penicillin powder not thoroughly diluted, -3 points
Liquid leakage, less than 18ml, -2 points
Injection not deep enough, liquid leakage, or needle bending, -3 points
2. Taking Temperature: 10 points
Requirements: Correctly use a thermometer to measure a sow's body temperature.
Deduction items:
Not disinfecting with alcohol, -2 points
Not shaking the mercury column of the thermometer down below 35°C, -10 points
Touching the front end of the thermometer with the hand before inserting it into the rectum, -5 points
Inserting the thermometer too shallowly, or for too short a time, failing to correctly measure the rectal temperature. -10 points
Unable to correctly read the actual measured temperature, -10 points
3. Weight Estimation: 30 points
Requirements: Observe the pig's body shape and appearance on site, and accurately estimate the body weight of a certain pig.
Scoring: ±5kg (30 points) ±10kg (15 points) ±15kg (5 points)
4: Veterinary Technician
1. Injection: 10 points
Requirements: Use a 20ml syringe, dilute 2 vials of penicillin powder for injection with 20ml of Houttuynia cordata injection, and perform neck intramuscular injection.
Deduction items:
Syringe and needle not disinfected, -2 points
Penicillin powder not thoroughly diluted, -3 points
Liquid leakage, less than 18ml, -2 points
Injection not deep enough, liquid leakage, or needle bending, -3 points
2. Taking Temperature: 10 points
Requirements: Correctly use a thermometer to measure a sow's body temperature.
Point deductions:
Not disinfecting with alcohol, -2 points
Not shaking the mercury column of the thermometer down below 35°C, -10 points
Touching the front end of the thermometer with the hand before inserting it into the rectum, -5 points
Inserting the thermometer too shallowly, or for too short a time, failing to measure the rectal temperature correctly, -10 points
Being unable to correctly read the actual measured temperature, -10 points
3. Ear notch identification: 5 points
Requirement: Facing the sow directly, read out the sow's ear notch number using the method of "left large, right small; top three, bottom one; read left-right, left-right in sequence."
Point deductions: Incorrect, -5 points
4. Blood collection: 20 points
Requirement: Restrain the sow with a rope, and collect 5ml of blood using the ear vein blood collection method.
Point deductions:
Not disinfecting the blood collection site, -5 points
Blood collection taking too long (5 minutes), -5 points
Collecting too little blood (1ml), -5 points
Not registering the sow's ear number on the blood collection bottle on site, -5 points
5. Necropsy: 25 points
Requirement: Perform on-site necropsy of the sick pig, completely remove the lungs, kidneys, and spleen; conduct post-mortem examination of the kidneys, inguinal lymph nodes, larynx, stomach, bladder, and cecum.
Point deductions:
Slaughtering the sick pig with incomplete bleeding, -3 points
Opening the thoracic cavity with incomplete ribs, or breaking the blade, -3 points
Puncturing the intestines or stomach when opening the abdominal cavity, -3 points
Failing to completely remove the lungs, kidneys, or spleen, -4 points
Failing to conduct post-mortem examination of the kidneys, inguinal lymph nodes, larynx, stomach, bladder, and cecum, -10 points
Not disinfecting the site after completing the necropsy, -2 points
6. Health care medication: 30 points
Requirement: Based on the pig herd's daily feed intake and routine health care medication regimen, calculate the 7-day health care medication amount for a certain pig herd. Weigh accurately and dilute step by step.
Point deductions:
Calculation error, -30 points
Inaccurate weighing, -10 points
Uneven dilution, -5 points
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After reading this post, I could practically be an assessor. Thanks, OP!
---------------------
I'd like to borrow this post, thanks
---------------------
Hahaha, so detailed, thanks OP!!!
---------------------
Very good material.
---------------------
Hehe - my own routine practices are just too non-standard!
---------------------
Hehe, classic
---------------------
Learning...
---------------------
If it were me, oh my, I wouldn't pass
---------------------
If pig farms could be this meticulous, I don't think the domestic breeding level would be what it is now.
---------------------
Learned something, thanks OP.
---------------------
Hehe, I'll use this as a reference from now on