What animals are suitable for raising on a Vital Micro-Ecological Fermentation Bed?

In principle, the Vital Micro-Ecological litter farming technique can be used for raising all kinds of animals, such as pigs, cattle, sheep and other livestock, and chickens, ducks and other poultry. Moreover, because the amount of excreta differs, the thickness of the litter can vary. For example, in fermentation bed pig farming, when the average litter thickness per square meter is70 cm, 5 to8 kgof pig manure and urine can be fermented and processed each day. If raising poultry, thenone square meter, taking the raising of 101 kgchickens as an example, 10 chickens can produce about1.2 kgof manure and urine per day, so for70 cmof litter, the capacity is sufficient and then some. However, given that chicken manure is harder to ferment and process than pig manure, the litter thickness can be reduced from 60-80 cm to40 cm(in the south, 25-35 cmis enough). In the Vital Micro-Ecological litter farming technique, the litter thickness, under no circumstances, is not recommended to be less than35 cm。

For carrying out fermentation bed pig farming, there are the following suggestions:

First: it is best for pig farming to be used by self-breeding and self-raising households. Self-breeding and self-raising has many advantages. First, the whole herd lives on the fermentation bed and forms the habit; second, it will not bring outside diseases into the farm.

Second: if you are a farmer trying this technique for the first time, it is recommended to start the trial only with growing pigs of20 kgor more up to finishing pigs. Once you have specifically grasped the principles of this technique and become proficient, you can expand to sows, breeding boars, piglets, farrowing beds, etc. This is mainly considered on the principle that a technique should start from simple practice, and after gradually summing up experience, the scope of implementation can be expanded. In order to prevent infection by pigs with epidemic diseases, before entering the pen you must also do a good job of various quarantine and epidemic prevention work, especially deworming work, so as to avoid viruses and worm eggs being discharged into the litter, being eaten by other pigs, and causing infection.

Third: if you must buy piglets from outside, it is best to bring in pigs from relatively standard pig farms. These farms do relatively better epidemic prevention work. When bringing in pigs, quarantine work must be done well, so as to avoid introducing pigs with infectious diseases, such as foot-and-mouth disease, mycoplasma pneumonia (asthma disease), infectious atrophic rhinitis, red dysentery (Clostridium welchii diarrheal dysentery), toxoplasmosis, encephalitis, etc. Never covet a momentary bargain and go to those places quoting extremely low prices to buy piglets. These are scammers who will feed the piglets they sell you some drugs and sand grains that cause the piglets to be unable to excrete manure and urine. After you buy them back, symptoms and death will appear within a few days, which will not only bring you huge economic losses, but may also cause you to suspect that it is a problem with the fermentation bed, causing you to no longer believe in this good technique and miss out on it.

Fourth: this method is more suitable for people who are new to pig farming and chicken farming and who do not have a relatively good understanding of knowledge such as pig farming and chicken farming, because fermentation bed pig farming and chicken farming techniques can make pig farming and chicken farming techniques simple and feasible, and will not produce as many problems as large-scale farming in cement pools. Of course, if you have mature management techniques and adopt low-cost health-care farming techniques plus fermentation bed farming techniques, that is even more like adding wings to a tiger.