1. Feeding & Management of Swine

2. 2 Major Types of Swine Production
Pure Breed
Commercial
Feeder pig producer
Buying and finishing feeder or weaner pigs
Farrow to finish

3. Feeding Systems for Swine Operations
Feeding the breeding herd
Feeding baby pigs
Feeding growing and finishing pigs

4. Common Management Practices for the Breeding Herd
Multiple farrowing
Artificial insemination
Natural (boar)
Check heat daily
Check gestating sows and gilts- 2 weeks before due
Put in farrowing-crate on the 110th day

5. Common Management Practices for Baby Pigs
Day 1: colostrum- naval cord clipped
Day 2-3: Iron shots and clip teeth
Day 2-5: Ear notch and dock tails
Day 2-14: castration
Day 7: Creep feed available
Before they are weaned, you need to vaccinate
Make sure they are in a dry, warm area
Most pigs are weaned to 3 to 8 weeks old

6. Management Practices to Wean Pigs to make it to Market
Acceptable feed conversion
High average daily gain
Full feed
Disease prevention and timely treatment
Self waterers

7. Sources of Energy for Swine
Corn
Barley
Buckwheat
Wheat
Triticale

8. Sources for Protein Soybean meal Cottonseed meal Linseed meal
Peanut meal
Tankage
Bone meal
Fish meal

9. Summary
Feeding and managing swine is very important. Detail raising swine should not be taken lightly, but should be explored with great detail. Remember there is a great deal of experience out there to help in this as a part of swine production.