10/29/2021
Swine Time Consulting, LLC provides training on record analysis, maximizing sow production, and increasing piglet survival. Also for the nursery, finisher, and wean-to-finish
management. STC also has Employee
Handbooks and Standard Operating
Procedures (SOP) manuals that outline the
best management practices which are
customized for each farm.
Swine Time Consulting, LLC services are designed to provide monthly oversight for ownership who do not wish to turn over daily management to a third party. On our consultation visits, we provide the
following services:
-Walk through the unit and review
records, production and facility
management looking at ways we can
improve your systems output on an
ongoing basis.
-Provide detailed follow up report with all
topics and issues covered on the farm
during the walk through.
-Benchmark analysis of your farm's
production by genetics, farm size, feed
company, and overall performance to
give ownership a comparison of their
system versus industry performance.
-Bring new technology and ideas to the
system that will assist in increasing the
systems production capabilities.
-Straight forward approach at what may
need to be changed in order to put the
farm at a targeted level of production.
A few topics of training included but not limited too are:
-Increasing Piglet Survival
• Recognize the main influences on level
of stillbirths
• State the actions required to minimize
stillbirth losses
• List the main causes of piglet deaths
post weaning
• Recognize the main influences on
mortality and their related importance
• Describe the techniques and practices
that are most effective in increasing piglet
survival.
-Breeding and Gestation Management
• Recognize the important features of
sow and boar anatomy and the estrus
cycle.
• Establish breeding routines that
maximize conception rate and litter size.
• List the requirements for successful
Artificial Insemination
• Recognize the stages of piglet development and state the possible cause of pregnancy failure.
•Reduce Non Productive Days through
early detection of reproductive failure.
• Develop a consistent flow of movement, static or dynamic, based on your farms setup.
Nursery Management
• Identify the main factors influencing
the performance of pigs at weaning.
• Improve the quality of pigs at weaning.
• Meet the environmental needs of
nursery pigs.
• Adopt appropriate feeding strategies
for young pigs.
• Establish effective nursery
management routines.
• Set appropriate nursery performance
targets
-Finisher Management
• List the main influences on the
profitability of the finisher areas.
• Understand the factors that influence
pig growth, feed efficiency and carcass
quality.
• State the environmental needs of
finisher pigs.
• Develop effective finishing barn routines.
- Bio-security practices which best suit the farms capabilities.
Production management includes a monthly
visit and thorough walk through of the sow
unit. We review production, health,
personnel, records and facility management. We enter data for all of our management farms and utilize this data when we do our walk through to monitor every aspect of the production system from feed, daily production management, health, and farm goal achievements. STC provides a monthly management report that covers information and progress of the weekly visits or month by month visits.
