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Title: Pork, the other white meat


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Pork, the other white meat
  • Chapter 8

2
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

3
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

4
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

5
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

6
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

7
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

8
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

9
Breeding
  • 10 days old - begin creep feeding (feed for the
    babies only)
  • 1 month - vaccinate castrate males
  • 2 monthes (30 lbs) - wean

10
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

11
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

12
Berkshire
13
Chester White
14
Duroc
15
Hampshire
16
Landrace
17
Poland China
18
Spots
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