What are the considerations for renovating a pigsty? These points you need to know in advance
Every year when spring begins, many people renovate their pigsties to improve them. So what issues need attention during renovation? Which ones are more important? Below we will look at what issues to pay attention to during renovation, besides making up for the shortcomings of your pigsty.
1. Ventilation
Pigsties generally have a strong odor, because pig manure contains a lot of ammonia, and cleaning is not done very frequently, so the ventilation effect inside the pigsty has a great impact on farming. During renovation, try not to sacrifice the ventilation space of your pigsty, otherwise the odor in the pigsty will accumulate seriously later, increasing the probability of various diseases. The best approach during renovation is to adjust the ventilation issues of the pigsty and optimize the ventilation effect.
2. Lighting
During renovation, you also need to consider the lighting of the pigsty. Many people think that light has little effect on the pigsty, and that pigs can be raised just as well in dark corners. This idea is wrong. Pigs raised with poor light not only have a higher disease rate, but may even fail some inspections at the time of marketing, because they may carry too many bacteria. Secondly, light also affects the fattening effect. If you want good weight gain, light must be controlled well.
3. Warmth retention
Warmth retention is something many pigsties easily overlook, because everyone mainly considers the issue of heat dissipation. Pigs are indeed not very resistant to heat, but if warmth retention is poor, the fattening effect of pigs is also not very good. If the temperature is not enough, what you feed them may not keep up with how fast they lose weight. During renovation, you must consider the subsequent warmth retention issue, and do it in whatever way is reasonable. It is best to have reasonable ventilation in summer and the ability to quickly block things up in winter for warmth retention.
4. Convenience
Convenience here mainly refers to feeding. After many people renovate, some places are unreasonable and cannot be used, or feeding is too troublesome. These are all problems caused by not considering convenience. The area of a pigpen is not small, and the most frequent daily tasks are feeding and changing pens, so during renovation you should make preparations for these two aspects, so as not to discover only after the renovation is completed that practicality is not high.
The above are some issues to pay attention to when renovating a pigsty. Everyone can think more about the impact of these issues on their own pigsty and make their pigsty more complete.