Feeding pigs

All feeds are divided into three groups.
1. Cereals (cereals and whole grains), juicy (beets, pumpkin, carrots, potatoes), green (nettle, alfalfa, quinoa, clover, shirits, etc.), coarse (hay flour), animal feed (dairy and meat Waste, milk). Feeding pigs with such a complex as a result will give high-quality meat.

2. Corn, bran, buckwheat. The quality of meat will be low, so in the diet, you must enter at least part of the feed from the first group.

3. Oats, soy, cake. The quality of the meat as a result will be very low. Meat will not be dense and granular, for storing long-lasting is unsuitable; The fat quickly turns yellow. Such feed for pigs can be used for fattening bacon and meat, in combination with milk, sugar beet, lucerne.
The quality of meat products is particularly affected by feeding in the last 2 months before slaughter.

As an addition to the main feeds it is recommended to use vegetables and fruits grown on private plots.

And now about the preparation of fodder and the technique of feeding. The most common are 2 ways of feeding: normalized and free, without restrictions. The uterus is pregnant and single, the young, fattening, the young repair, and boars-producers are fed according to the norms. Uterine sucking, like piglets, suckers up to 22 kg, should be fed in plenty.

Often pigs receive grain not ground. You should know that it is not well absorbed. Such feeding of pigs is quite comparable to a furnace with a bill.
Pigs must necessarily receive grain in crushed form (grind), or coarse flour. Usually given dry food, or wet poultry. Pumping uterus with piglets-suckers it is desirable to feed with mesocarp. If it is a question of pigs of other groups, then dry food is used, it is better - granulated. Pigs that are fattening must receive dry food from the self-feeder. In households, where food remains are widely used, they prepare mash-ups.

What feed for pigs is used in practice? Granulated, dry loose, wet, liquid.

Mixed fodder dry razypnoy can only be used in well-ventilated areas. It is served by a special hermetic system to the bunker feeders. Doses of feed should be frequent and small to avoid loss and guarantee full eating. Even with strict compliance with the requirements of feeding, such food affects animals negatively, since it contains about 20% of dust, and this affects the state of the respiratory tract. The inexorable statistics show: when using such a feed, the number of diseases is 11% higher than in other feeds, the growth rate and weight gain are 12% lower.

The food is moist with a homogeneous consistency, with a dry feed and water ratio of 1: 1.5. This food is eaten better. The form of mixed fodder moist is applicable on small farms, when the load on the operator is small. Feed liquid - a homogeneous mass, the moisture of which is up to 75%.

The most acceptable food for pigs is granulated. During the manufacture of food, almost all harmful microorganisms are destroyed. Biopolymers, which are the main part of organic matter, are changing. Treatment of moisture-thermal causes denaturation of proteins, changing the solubility and the ratio of their fractions. Starch is gelatinized, which is very important for young animals. Fat is released from fat cells, viscosity decreases, more evenly distributed throughout the feed. However, low-molecular components, such as amino acids, vitamins, etc., also change, partially breaking down. The content of minerals practically does not change.
Wet form (moisture up to 65%) - is favorable especially, since it is optimal for assimilation.

Feeding pigs with moulting (moisture more than 76%) reveals many negative sides. With such nutrition the salivary glands do not work well . A large amount of liquid has a bad effect on the passage of food through the digestive tract, rising to 10 hours. Digestibility is reduced. It is inadmissible to feed the sows with chatterboxes. They feed so badly on food, so they try to "catch up" with quantity. Overeating is dangerous when there are fruits in the abdominal part. Moreover, the constitution becomes loose, the risk of heart failure increases. Feeding pigs liquid feeds, of course, give high weight gain, but in the end they are the most expensive, costing more than dry.

The main principles in selecting feeds should be: economy, convenience of service, hygiene and quality.