Introduction to the HHIS Functional Features of the Sow Intelligent Feeding System
HHIS Sow Intelligent Feeding System
Data comparison between automated sow feeding equipment and conventional breeding models
Below is a data comparison between a farm with an annual output of 20,000 slaughter pigs and 1,200 sows using conventional gestation stalls versus intelligent precision sow feeding equipment.
Infrastructure investment
Conventional breeding Amount Sow intelligent feeding equipment breeding Amount Increase
Number of breeding sows 1,200 2.4 million yuan Requires 800 1.6 million yuan -80
3,000 sq m gestation barn 450,000 2,000 sq m gestation barn 300,000 -15
Total cost of gestation stalls 250,000 Sow intelligent feeding equipment requires 14 units: 12 feeders, 1 estrus detection unit, 1 intelligent separation unit, computers, etc. 960,000 71
Total 310 286 -24
②Annual analysis of breeding costs for the year:
Conventional breeding Sow intelligent feeding equipment breeding Savings
Investment item Amount (10,000 yuan) Investment item Amount (10,000 yuan) (10,000 yuan)
Feed cost for 1,200 sows (feed at 2.2 yuan/kg) 264 Feed cost for 800 sows 181 83
Medical costs (50 yuan/head) 60 Medical costs 48 12
Annual wages for 16 workers 32 Workers employed 3 29
Total 356 Total 232 124
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The sow intelligent management system is an inevitable product of science and technology as the primary productive force.
With the development of computer technology to this day, computer applications have penetrated into all walks of life, bringing great convenience to social development. Computer technology has also begun to be applied to the breeding industry, which is a product of the new era. How can large-scale pig farms manage each individual pig, from birth to culling and sale, how to establish a detailed file for each pig, how to conduct systematic analysis of the pig herd as a farm, and how to use the management system to feed sows precisely? And so on.... The sow intelligent management system can perfectly solve all the digitalization needs of pig farms.
For large breeding pig farms, gilts can be fitted with electronic ear tags at birth, and detailed files can be established in the system, such as: paternal and maternal lines, date of birth, birth weight, routine epidemic prevention measures, varieties of feed used, records of daily illnesses, the medication used for each illness, and even the daily management by the keeper, which veterinarian used medication each time, and so on, all of which can be recorded in detail. These records provide first-hand information for handling gilts in the future. In the sow's production process, it is possible to record in detail the date of first pregnancy, date of estrus, time of each farrowing, number of piglets born per litter, interval between each estrus, average weight of each litter at birth, and so on. These data provide detailed and accurate information for selecting superior sows and eliminating inferior ones.
The sow precision feeding system can achieve accurate feeding amounts for each pig under loose-housing conditions. It can automatically calculate the daily feeding amount for each sow based on body weight and pregnancy date, and control the feeder to dispense feed for the sow. There is no need for manual weighing and feeding of each pig, achieving functions such as accuracy, precision, convenience, feed savings, and labor savings.
With the rapid development of network technology, through computer technology, remote monitoring between pig farms and consumers can be realized. Farm managers can control the farm's operation and management situation without being on site, and keep abreast of farm dynamics at all times; consumers can learn about the production process of the products they consume at any time, consume with clarity, and use with confidence.
(2) The sow intelligent management system is a development trend for China's pig industry to align with the international community
China is a major pig-raising country, but its productivity is extremely low, and there is a large gap with developed countries such as Europe and the United States. China's feed industry has developed for more than 20 years, and from formula to production process it is world-class. Feeding has already been done to a very high level. Why can foreign countries achieve profitability with a pig-to-feed ratio of 5:1 for one pig, while China still loses money at 7:1? The most fundamental reason is the problem of sow feeding. Sows have low reproductive capacity and a high culling rate. China mostly adopts the American-style gestation stall feeding system. This system can control the feed intake of pregnant sows relatively accurately, but it greatly restricts the movement of sows, keeping them in a long-term state of stress, lowering their own immunity and disease resistance, which leads to an extremely high sow culling rate in China's pig farms, the same as in the United States (culling rate 35-40%), greatly shortening the service life of sows, and resulting in a low survival rate during lactation and the piglet-rearing period. These factors are the fundamental reasons directly brought about by sow management. However, in some developed countries in Western Europe such as the Netherlands, intelligent sow management was already used more than ten years ago, and this system has now been widely promoted and applied throughout Europe. It has achieved a high degree of automated control throughout the production process, with automatic feeding, automatic management, and automatic data transmission. Automation has thereby driven high production efficiency and high work efficiency for management personnel. For a breeding sow farm with a sow population scale of 750 head, only 2 people are needed to manage the farm. Management personnel enter the farm on average no more than 1 hour per day, and the work after entering the farm is mainly operations that must be completed by people, such as breeding, group transfer, observation, and handling. By using the automatic sow feeding management system, the herd can achieve excellent reproductive production results. Under a production model with weaning at 26-28 days, the average annual litters per sow in farms using this system can increase to 2.40 litters/year, the average number of live piglets born per litter can reach 12.32 head, the average annual number of weaned piglets per sow (sow annual productivity) can reach 26.83 head, the average return-to-estrus rate for the whole herd is only 7.40%, and the average service life of sows increases by 1.5 years. That is, implementing automated management for sows can greatly improve the reproductive production efficiency of the sow herd. Through a high degree of automated management, individualized management of group-housed sows is realized, avoiding the impact of human factors on pig production and greatly improving the overall economic efficiency of breeding. According to the average production level in Europe, in farms using the automatic sow feeding management system, each commercial pig can achieve a profit of 50-120 euros on average. This is equivalent to a profit level of 500-1,200 yuan.
In 2008, China exported a total of 82,200 tons of pork, with an export value of 275 million USD, and imported 373,000 tons of pork, with an import value of 523 million USD. The domestic market has consistently been unable to meet demand, and the domestic market situation has always been impacted by international pig prices. If pig farms want to develop their industry steadily, they must withstand the test of the international market and compete with the international pig industry. How to improve their enterprises' ability to resist risks? The most important thing is to improve productivity. Science and technology are the primary productive force. Improving the quality of breeding pigs, the architectural model of pig houses, using feeding equipment with high technological content, improving feeding methods, and so on, only the application of these means can align with the international community.
The great development of China's pig industry and the rise of large-scale pig farming are matters of the past 20 years. However, today Chinese people are also facing the awkward situation that Westerners faced more than 40 years ago. If 20 years ago Chinese people transplanted the Western factory-farming pig model and swallowed both the essence and the dross, then today, when Westerners have already highlighted some of the dross, what reason do we still have not to reflect and adjust our policies?
Below is a data comparison between a farm with an annual output of 20,000 slaughter pigs and 1,200 sows using conventional gestation stalls versus intelligent precision sow feeding equipment.
Infrastructure investment
Conventional breeding Amount Sow intelligent feeding equipment breeding Amount Increase
Number of breeding sows 1,200 2.4 million yuan Requires 800 1.6 million yuan -80
3,000 sq m gestation barn 450,000 2,000 sq m gestation barn 300,000 -15
Total cost of gestation stalls 250,000 Sow intelligent feeding equipment requires 14 units: 12 feeders, 1 estrus detection unit, 1 intelligent separation unit, computers, etc. 960,000 71
Total 310 286 -24
②Annual analysis of breeding costs for the year:
Conventional breeding Sow intelligent feeding equipment breeding Savings
Investment item Amount (10,000 yuan) Investment item Amount (10,000 yuan) (10,000 yuan)
Feed cost for 1,200 sows (feed at 2.2 yuan/kg) 264 Feed cost for 800 sows 181 83
Medical costs (50 yuan/head) 60 Medical costs 48 12
Annual wages for 16 workers 32 Workers employed 3 29
Total 356 Total 232 124
qi___qi added the following content on 2009-11-19 14:57
No. 217 Jiefang Avenue, Wuhan City, Hubei Province Tel: 027-63998087 027-83860672
Seeking purchase and supply of EM bacterial liquid and bacterial strains, price, wholesale
--------------------------------------
The sow intelligent management system is an inevitable product of science and technology as the primary productive force.
With the development of computer technology to this day, computer applications have penetrated into all walks of life, bringing great convenience to social development. Computer technology has also begun to be applied to the breeding industry, which is a product of the new era. How can large-scale pig farms manage each individual pig, from birth to culling and sale, how to establish a detailed file for each pig, how to conduct systematic analysis of the pig herd as a farm, and how to use the management system to feed sows precisely? And so on.... The sow intelligent management system can perfectly solve all the digitalization needs of pig farms.
For large breeding pig farms, gilts can be fitted with electronic ear tags at birth, and detailed files can be established in the system, such as: paternal and maternal lines, date of birth, birth weight, routine epidemic prevention measures, varieties of feed used, records of daily illnesses, the medication used for each illness, and even the daily management by the keeper, which veterinarian used medication each time, and so on, all of which can be recorded in detail. These records provide first-hand information for handling gilts in the future. In the sow's production process, it is possible to record in detail the date of first pregnancy, date of estrus, time of each farrowing, number of piglets born per litter, interval between each estrus, average weight of each litter at birth, and so on. These data provide detailed and accurate information for selecting superior sows and eliminating inferior ones.
The sow precision feeding system can achieve accurate feeding amounts for each pig under loose-housing conditions. It can automatically calculate the daily feeding amount for each sow based on body weight and pregnancy date, and control the feeder to dispense feed for the sow. There is no need for manual weighing and feeding of each pig, achieving functions such as accuracy, precision, convenience, feed savings, and labor savings.
With the rapid development of network technology, through computer technology, remote monitoring between pig farms and consumers can be realized. Farm managers can control the farm's operation and management situation without being on site, and keep abreast of farm dynamics at all times; consumers can learn about the production process of the products they consume at any time, consume with clarity, and use with confidence.
(2) The sow intelligent management system is a development trend for China's pig industry to align with the international community
China is a major pig-raising country, but its productivity is extremely low, and there is a large gap with developed countries such as Europe and the United States. China's feed industry has developed for more than 20 years, and from formula to production process it is world-class. Feeding has already been done to a very high level. Why can foreign countries achieve profitability with a pig-to-feed ratio of 5:1 for one pig, while China still loses money at 7:1? The most fundamental reason is the problem of sow feeding. Sows have low reproductive capacity and a high culling rate. China mostly adopts the American-style gestation stall feeding system. This system can control the feed intake of pregnant sows relatively accurately, but it greatly restricts the movement of sows, keeping them in a long-term state of stress, lowering their own immunity and disease resistance, which leads to an extremely high sow culling rate in China's pig farms, the same as in the United States (culling rate 35-40%), greatly shortening the service life of sows, and resulting in a low survival rate during lactation and the piglet-rearing period. These factors are the fundamental reasons directly brought about by sow management. However, in some developed countries in Western Europe such as the Netherlands, intelligent sow management was already used more than ten years ago, and this system has now been widely promoted and applied throughout Europe. It has achieved a high degree of automated control throughout the production process, with automatic feeding, automatic management, and automatic data transmission. Automation has thereby driven high production efficiency and high work efficiency for management personnel. For a breeding sow farm with a sow population scale of 750 head, only 2 people are needed to manage the farm. Management personnel enter the farm on average no more than 1 hour per day, and the work after entering the farm is mainly operations that must be completed by people, such as breeding, group transfer, observation, and handling. By using the automatic sow feeding management system, the herd can achieve excellent reproductive production results. Under a production model with weaning at 26-28 days, the average annual litters per sow in farms using this system can increase to 2.40 litters/year, the average number of live piglets born per litter can reach 12.32 head, the average annual number of weaned piglets per sow (sow annual productivity) can reach 26.83 head, the average return-to-estrus rate for the whole herd is only 7.40%, and the average service life of sows increases by 1.5 years. That is, implementing automated management for sows can greatly improve the reproductive production efficiency of the sow herd. Through a high degree of automated management, individualized management of group-housed sows is realized, avoiding the impact of human factors on pig production and greatly improving the overall economic efficiency of breeding. According to the average production level in Europe, in farms using the automatic sow feeding management system, each commercial pig can achieve a profit of 50-120 euros on average. This is equivalent to a profit level of 500-1,200 yuan.
In 2008, China exported a total of 82,200 tons of pork, with an export value of 275 million USD, and imported 373,000 tons of pork, with an import value of 523 million USD. The domestic market has consistently been unable to meet demand, and the domestic market situation has always been impacted by international pig prices. If pig farms want to develop their industry steadily, they must withstand the test of the international market and compete with the international pig industry. How to improve their enterprises' ability to resist risks? The most important thing is to improve productivity. Science and technology are the primary productive force. Improving the quality of breeding pigs, the architectural model of pig houses, using feeding equipment with high technological content, improving feeding methods, and so on, only the application of these means can align with the international community.
The great development of China's pig industry and the rise of large-scale pig farming are matters of the past 20 years. However, today Chinese people are also facing the awkward situation that Westerners faced more than 40 years ago. If 20 years ago Chinese people transplanted the Western factory-farming pig model and swallowed both the essence and the dross, then today, when Westerners have already highlighted some of the dross, what reason do we still have not to reflect and adjust our policies?