Working time expensesof pig tending
2000
Reppo, B. | Sada, O. (Estonian Agricultural Univ., Tartu (Estonia). Inst. of Agricultural Machinery)
Pig tender's working time expenses on young pigs, fatlings and sows with different feeding, removal of dung, bedding spread and watering technologies depends on the herd's technological group size and the amount of feed. The smallest working time daily expenses were accordingly with 700, 750 and 1000 fatlings. The technology included dry forage delivering by automatic feeding line 'Roxell' or by the battery-wheelbarrow EK-2 into a feed trough. The smallest working time expenses in case of hand feeding were detected when the forage was portioned out from a barrow into the self-feeder 'Groba' and then to a trough. It was 0.64 and 0.58 min per 10 pigs. The biggest working time expense was in the groups of 48 sows with piglets when dry forage was portioned by technology: container-wheelbarrow-bucket-trough. The extra expenses of working time at cleaning of pens were 1.76 min per 10 pigs with 300-fatling herd. Smaller working time extra expenses were while carted out mechanically with a wing scraper
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