Flooring For Weaned Pigs

Comfort clean flexible keeping your pigs comfortable and clean is the primary objective of all farmweld sow and pig flooring products.

Flooring for weaned pigs.

The new premier nursery floor has a bright lime green color for easy scour detection of pigs up to 120 pounds. The floor should be sloping away to the rear to facilitate cleaning with water. Excelerator nursery floor is a high impact virgin polypropylene slat for pigs up to 75 pounds. A flat solid floor is usually made from cement but not polished to avoid slipping or from hard soil.

Nooyen weaning products piglets are particularly sensitive immediately after weaning. Made of high quality plastic triangular rod and cast iron. Our plastic and cast iron slats have been on the market for 30 years and they are under constant development and optimization. Tests conducted by double l show that producers using the 4 x 6 wean to finish pig mat can use 36 less energy to maintain the pig s body temperature 105 degrees versus a pig lying on a concrete floor.

In a high quality and easy to clean shed you can ease this transition which helps you to prevent a teat dip. Growket modular flooring systems for farrowing and weaning are combined to adapt to different pen designs. Depending on the individual wishes of the pig farmer nooyen offers supercoated plastic tri bar or tri cast slats or a combination possibly also with a concrete section. Per piglet 0 3 0 5 sqm.

Per boar 6 8 sqm. There is a wide range of slats of various sizes and surfaces. Aco funki offers a complete flooring program for pig barns. Six week old pigs already weaned can be bought by mail.

The advantage nursery floor is for pigs up to 150 pounds and has 1 4 gap perimeter that is easy to power wash clean. This attracts piglets to sleep away from the sow and it greatly reduces crush kill. For pig welfare and health flooring must be smooth but not slippery and designed constructed and maintained so as not to cause injury or suffering to pigs standing or bedding on it. It starts with our sow platforms and nursery flooring systems made of state of the art polypropylene to ensure long term durability.

Wean to finish from weaning to slaughter in a same phase improves animal health because stress caused by the moving to the finishing facilities is. Thermal comfort for little pigs in cold wean to finish barn. Hog helper mats insulate slatted floors which eliminates chilling drafts resulting in a warm surface that provides better creep comfort. Flooring must be suitable for the size and weight of pigs and where no bedding is provided must form a rigid even and stable surface.