Pork, the other white meat

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Pork, the other white meat

• Chapter 8

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What are the types of Hogs?

• Primary Lean Cuts hams, loins, picnics, Boston
  Butts
• Meat Type Hog more than half the weight of a
  Number 1 animal is Primary Lean Cuts
• Bacon Type Hog less than 1/2 is PLC
• large litter size
• little value in U.S. except to increase litter
  size

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Hog Selection

• Feed Conversion Rate pounds of feed needed to
  make a pound of hog
• no more than 4 lbs of feed per 1 lb of hog
• Minimum Litter Size 9
• First Litter should have a combined pig wt at 21
  days of 95 lbs or more
• 110 lbs for a mature sow

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Hog Management Programs

• All-in-one all pigs are at the same stage of
  development
• buy feeder pigs, finish, market, repeat
• no breeding stock
• income all at once
• Staggered or Continuous Flow costantly raise
  pigs of all ages
• farrow all year long
• constant supply of income

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Feeding Hogs

• Need more protein vitamins than ruminants
• lots of water - succeptable to heat stress
• Feeders need lots of protein
• Finishing needs lots of energy
• Crude Protein total protein in feed, not all is
  used by the animal
• Digestible Protein amount of protein that the
  animal can actually use

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Feeding Hogs

• Antibiotics often added to feed to prevent
  disease, grow faster
• Full Feeding animals get all the feed that they
  want (self feeder)
• usually not done with breeding stock, if sows are
  too fat, they wont get pregnant
• Hand Feeding animals are fed rations at chore
  time

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Hog Management

• Sanitation is critical
• facilities should be easy to clean - concrete
• inspect new pigs
• clean pens whenever pigs are moved
• isolate new pigs for 3 weeks
• Cholera can wipe out an entire herd
• Chester White needs sun protection
• sunburn
• Pens maximum of 30 pigs / pen

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Breeding

• Flush sows before breeding
• increasing level of nutrition
• 4 days before farrowing, put sows in farrowing
  crate (disinfect pen sow)
• Heat lamp on babies
• Exercise sow daily
• 3 Days old - clip needle teeth

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Breeding

• 10 days old - begin creep feeding (feed for the
  babies only)
• 1 month - vaccinate castrate males
• 2 monthes (30 lbs) - wean

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Livestock Terms

• What do you call a mature male hog?
• Boar
• What do you call a mature female hog?
• Sow
• What do you call the act of giving birth?
• Farrowing
• What do you call a castrated male hog?
• Barrow

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Livestock Terms

• What do you call an young female hog?
• Gilt
• What is the gestation for hogs?
• 114 days or 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days

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Berkshire
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Chester White
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Duroc
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Hampshire
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Landrace
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Poland China
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Spots
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