Optimize management strategies for gestating group-housed sows using free access ESF systems
Status:
Completed
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Expertise:
Building and livestock management
Aim / objectives:
Optimiser la régie d’élevage des truies gestantes en groupe alimentées avec le système de DAC autobloquant.
- Test nine pen layouts and determine the optimal positioning of the free access ESF system;
- Determine if gilts require special care (pre-training, groups of gilts only, etc.) or whether they can be housed with multiparous sows:
- a) Compare the performance of gilts involved in both treatments and monitor their performance up to the third parity;
- b) Observe the behavior of gilts in these two situations;
- c) Test different training strategies.
Collaborators:
Alain Lefebvre and programmer, Jyga Technologies inc.; Benjamin Roy and Pierre Roy, Ferme Saniben inc.
Project Manager:
Sébastien Turcotte
CDPQ Team:
Marie-Aude Ricard; Patrick Gagnon