CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Want to raise sows without any skills? Here are some breeding tips and experience sharing

Preparations before breeding sows

If you want to raise sows, you need to do the following preparations in advance:

1. Choose a suitable breeding site: Make sure the site is clean, well ventilated, and provides enough space for sows to move around.
2. Purchase healthy sows: Choose healthy sows from reliable farms and ensure they are free of infectious diseases.
3. In-depth understanding of breeding technology: learn relevant breeding knowledge, and understand sow feeding, disease prevention and control, reproduction and other aspects.
4. Prepare necessary equipment and tools: Purchase appropriate equipment and tools such as feed troughs, water troughs, pig houses and cleaning tools.

Feeding and management of sows

Feeding and management of sows is very important. Here are some suggestions:

• Reasonable feed formula: According to the physiological characteristics and needs of sows, feed is scientifically formulated to ensure that they obtain sufficient and balanced nutrition.
• Feeding at regular times and in regular amounts: Establish a scientific feeding plan and give food on time and in regular amounts to keep sows in healthy physical condition.
• Regular physical examinations and disease prevention: Ask a veterinarian to conduct regular physical examinations on sows and carry out necessary vaccinations and deworming to prevent the occurrence of diseases.
• Pig house environment management: Keep the pig house clean and dry, clean up the feces in the pig house in time to prevent the breeding of bacteria.

Reproduction and farrowing management

When sows reach the right reproductive age, you can consider breeding. Here are some key points for breeding and farrowing management:

• Breed selection and breeding: Select suitable boars for breeding and ensure that the breeding boars have good quality and genetic characteristics.
• Pregnancy management: During pregnancy, provide appropriate nutrition and living conditions, conduct regular pregnancy checks, and be prepared for delivery.
• Farrowing and post-farrowing care: Prepare a clean farrowing bed before farrowing, ensure the health and safety of the sow and piglets, and provide colostrum feeding and keep the piglets warm in a timely manner.
• Weaning and piglet rearing: According to the growth needs of piglets, arrange the weaning time reasonably and provide appropriate feed to ensure the healthy growth of piglets.

Income and risk analysis

As a business, sow farming requires not only considering the cost of input, but also understanding the potential benefits and risks:

• Market demand analysis: Study the market demand and price trends for breeding sows, and select appropriate breeding scale and breeding varieties.
• Cost and return analysis: Calculate the costs of the various inputs required to raise sows, including feed, equipment and labor, and assess the likely returns.
• Disease and economic risks: Pay attention to disease prevention and control to prevent the economic risks brought by the epidemic to the breeding business.

Although raising sows requires certain skills and experience, as long as you are well prepared, learn relevant knowledge, and plan and manage reasonably, you can get a stable return. I hope this information will be helpful to your breeding plan! Thank you for reading.