pether Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 when breeding pigs outdoors do farmers work to a system e.g 3 girls 1 boy in every individual enclosure or is this way out? im sorry if its in wrong section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmernick06 Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 Depends alot on how many you've got i think \ With a rare breed like the Essex pig i think a good breeding boar isn't very common so he often has to be used on quite a lot of sows. A more common breed it also all depends on what you've got. The farm i worked on they had one boar on 3 sows, the rest were for slaughter. But im not entirely sure \ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pether Posted September 22, 2007 Author Share Posted September 22, 2007 first of all this is for my layout ive got around 70 girls and roughly the same in boys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmernick06 Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 first of all this is for my layout ive got around 70 girls and roughly the same in boys. Oh right i see, i don't think that there would be that many boys in a pen \ Far less than the sows i think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pether Posted September 22, 2007 Author Share Posted September 22, 2007 would it be ok 1 boy to 4 girls in each pen as these are sort of free range? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 i always though most were artifically fertalised now adayds to be honest, even free range, better rate that way, i know most of ours were when we had the farm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leakeyvale Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 i always though most were artifically fertalised now adayds to be honest, even free range, better rate that way, i know most of ours were when we had the farm Visited a pig farmer a while back and yes, artificial insemnation is the order of the day although this particular unit also had a boar (one) to keep the ladies happy as well. AI just made certain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 thats what i thought, we did have a big old boar to, but all were done ai to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pether Posted September 22, 2007 Author Share Posted September 22, 2007 so il get rid of most of the boys then but keep a few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 you could ,but it depends on how old or new year wise your layout going to be, ours was 70's to early 90's and they ai'd all of the sows i belive bar a few, ,maybe before that they didnt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schw84 Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 we have over 300 sows and only 3 boars, 2 live in the sow yard, and the other one lives with the gilts only now used as chasers to mark up be4 AI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 The farm next to me ,where I used to work have 2500 sows outside. We worked on an AI system and also ran a boar with 20 sows per paddock just in case the AI didn`t work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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