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planning piggery

in development

• why do you want to build a piggery-farm

• what are the alternatives (fruit,poultry,fish,...)

• what are the economic benefits for piggery and the alternatives

• Do you want to have sows?

• Do you want fatening pigs?

• Do you want to do it organic and what rules for your organic production are essential for you?

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1.How Many pigs do you want? 2.Look for limiting factors!

Do you have the resources for that? Can you extend your resources? In which cases and fields can you and want you to work together with other farmers to extend your resources?

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Make alternative proposals for the buildings? How many workers do you need to treat the pigs well? Do you want to slaughter to get the meat for own marketing? if, can you make a contract with a slaughter and a vet, to check the quality of the meat Do you want to refine the meat to convienience products ...? Do you like to use rules for production and marketing, which have been decided by your cooperative.

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Check the economic values of the resources you need? Check the economic values of alternatives?

Check the prices for the products? Use a Calculationprogramm for checking and planning the best economic alternatives for you! Look for a market for your products

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Going through the resources

Buildings

How to plan the buildings to fit the requirements A. For sows(weaning, pregnant, not pregnant) B. For separated piglets C. For fatening

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Going through the resources

Workers

1. How can you educate your workers well?
2. How can you motivate them wll?
3. Make a work schedule
4. use a database for checking lifecycle events of the pigs and make it easy to be strict to preserve healthy pigs

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Going through the resources

Feeding

1. Look for the quality of your own food or bought food?
2. Look for the consum of water and the quality?
3. Look that you have good storaqges for the food
4. Look that you have always enough food
5. Check the ration (MJ,PROTEIN,...)
6. Check the amount of costs and alternatives

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Going through the resources

Pigs

1. treat them well
2. observe them and act quick and good, if they have problems or missbehave
3. look for improving the genetics, but also think about vitality first
4. Look for posibilities to reduce stress (other checklist)

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Going through the resources

vet, consultants and tools for health and animal observation

1. Take a Vet for prevention, not primary for medication
2. a vet on farm is not always the best alternative
   1. send him videos, samples from the dung, microscope pictures from the dung

How to get the food and other organic material or IMO like straw you need

Calculate your requirements!

A. From. Own production B. From the market

Howto store food? What buildings?

Howto prepare food?

Mills? Working time!

How to treat the pigs how much time is needed to pig..