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Swine Production System

The document discusses swine production systems, highlighting the importance of proper management, feeding, and housing for pigs to ensure their health and productivity. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages of different production methods, including pasture and confinement systems, and emphasizes the need for improved practices in regions like Mecha district to enhance income and food security. The study concludes that better production systems and value creation approaches are necessary to meet the growing demand for meat in developing countries.

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Swine Production System

The document discusses swine production systems, highlighting the importance of proper management, feeding, and housing for pigs to ensure their health and productivity. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages of different production methods, including pasture and confinement systems, and emphasizes the need for improved practices in regions like Mecha district to enhance income and food security. The study concludes that better production systems and value creation approaches are necessary to meet the growing demand for meat in developing countries.

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Name: Mary Jean Castro Nuevo Course/ Section: BSA-1A CS

Date: Feb.12, 2024 Rating:

Laboratory Activity Number 1


Swine Production System
Introduction
Swine Production Systems. “Swine” is any of various stout-bodied short legged omnivorous
artiodactyl mammals (family suidae) with a thick bristly skin and long flexible snout.
Swine is a product of people who earn a lot of money, and it is easy if only the proper needs of
domestic pigs are known. It provides red meat that people love because of the many uses of this
pork meat, especially when it is 15–30 kg. What kind of feeds are used to feed the pigs so that
they grow more easily and are healthy? What kind of feeds are based on their month, and they
are also given vitamins. Pigs are also scavengers and can make productive use of many materials
that would otherwise be wasted. Raising pigs or making pork products requires that you have
enough capital to build your product.
Pigs ( young swine of either sex weighing less than 120 pounds) were domesticated in China as
early as 4900 B.C. Biblical writings mention them as early as 1500 B. C., and there are
references to the keeping of swine kn Great Britain in 800 B. C.
Most swine today are raised in all-in, all-out systems, where each room or building is completely
emptied and sanitized between groups of pigs. The pigs in each group enter a freshly disinfected
environment, and stay there for this phase of their life. The facility has a separate room or
building for each group of pigs weaned, with extra space if needed to allow workers time to
clean the room before the next group of pigs. All- in, all-out animals in each room are of a
uniform age and size and are isolated as much as possible to decrease the possibility of diseases
spreading from older animal groups to younger ones. The numbers are particularly high in
countries that are heavy producers of corn, barley, and potatoes. Countries with an excess of
dairy through products such as buttermilk and, when also producing, a lot of pigs (domestic pigs
weighing more than 120 pounds, raised for market). There are special places to grow or place
productive pigs in the right place. Because we have family members who are Muslim, one of
their traditions is the prohibition of pets, especially meat. Even in such areas, small operations
serving special markets are permitted.
Climate is also one that is not usually a limiting factor and threatens the feed supply. Pigs are
both raised in warm and temperate climates, although the young pig really needs to be kept
warm. Not with other pigs that are only outside, it can be hot or rainy because it is not for sale,
even if it is only for consumption by the owners.
Swine production varies worldwide. They are still chasing wild pigs. Swine can be produced
efficiently in very small numbers for home or family farm use or in larger numbers for
marketing. Large-scale production is more likely to succeed where cooperative marketing is
possible.
The technology of swine production is well developed. Feeding, management, housing, health,
and marketing system vary greatly within and between countries. In parts of the world where
labor is cheap and capital in scarce, labor intensive system tend to be used, while production
methods in industrialized countries tend to be more Capital intensive. Hogs in some areas are
raised primarily on forage, while elsewhere large number are produced in total confinement
without green feed.
Disadvantages are that different ages of animals (with different degrees of immuno-competency)
are housed together, facilitating disease spread; stress levels can be heightened with changing
social groups; adequate cleaning and disinfecting are not feasible; and higher levels of antibiotics
and other medications are normally required to control disease.
The primary advantages are that disease spread is minimized; animals are less stressed because
they remain with the same age and social group throughout their development; and complete
cleaning and disinfecting between groups is possible. The disadvantage is that space is less
efficiently allocated, and that more space may be needed to allow rooms to be emptied for
cleaning between groups.

OBJECTIVES
 Know the purpose of pigs
 Learn the foods of pigs and their feeding sequence
 How to differentiate breeds
 Learn the swine production cycle
 Be able to name major disease/issues facing the swine industry today.
Methodology
We source relevant websites based on the important methods of swine production. Our research
includes the ECHO Community, USAID Gov., Penn State Extension, The Pig Site, Morris
Veterinary Center and other sources to provide us with details about swine production and how
we can better increase production in pigs. There are many helpful websites to further expand
scientific articles and research papers from various publishers and journals. Articles are one of
the most important, especially when you don’t know much about raising animals like pigs and
making productions. A database is also the use of articles because you can see the values,
especially in the production and characteristics of the product development. And the qualities
that we can count on in our production, especially in swine production.
Results and Discussion
Pasture system require simpler skills and management than confinement system do. Cost for
pasture system shelter and equipment are lower than those for the permanent facilities and swine
are less subjects to crowding and social stress. A pasture operation is also more flexible than a
confinement operation especially a confinement operation with elaborate facilities. As the price
of corn rises in relation to the market price of hogs, there comes a point at which it is more
profitable to sell the corn than to use it as feed for the hogs. Simple production methods, in
which the high cost items are feed and labor, allow the producer to respond as he sees fit in this
kind of situation, because his capital is not tied up in elaborate facilities.
Fewer pigs per litter can be saved in the pasture system. Weather problems are greater, since the
hogs do not live in a controlled environment. It is harder to catch the pig for treatment, ear
notching, and clipping of eye teeth.
Conclusion
Swine production is a recently introduced activity in Mecha district with traditional management
based on scavenging type of feeding. The production system of pigs in the district, however,
lacks proper pig husbandry practices such as feeding, housing, health care, and overall
management efforts. This study revealed that the main purpose of production is to get additional
income for the household. In addition, the study pointed that the pig farming in the study area
enabled producers to generate additional income which in turn helps in achieving food security
self-employment for landless and unemployed people in the study area. This assessment study is
the only and first of its kind and has limitation in analysis of whole factors available in the
farming system; hence, detailed socioeconomic and biological studies are expected afterwards.
As pigs are among the animal species which are expected to fulfill the growing demand of meat
in developing countries, better production system and value creation approaches should be
introduced in the farming system.

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