With the complexities involved in running a successful hog farm, it can be a daunting task to get everything done in the time you need from birth of the animal to taking it to market for sale. Because of this, pig sorting scales have grown in popularity for livestock owners over the years.
There are the practical considerations of space, pens and feedlots set-up, personnel, feed, transportation, health maintenance (including vet bills, food, water, air circulation, supplements, room), which can make this an extremely difficult task to get the hog from being born to being a valuable sale commodity.
The invention of the sorting scale has been a huge boon to running a viable farm. It vastly improves your successes at market by lower the time needed to successfully feed and maintain the pig’s weight. Using alleys that individually sort the pigs for weighing, and then sending them to the appropriate feedlot is one way to aid in faster growth of the animal, and less time needed from you. The pig is individually weighed, and a determination is made based on the findings as to whether the pig needs more food and nutrients or less, or whether the pig is doing just fine within your timelines.
Without the time that’s needed to sort hogs by hand, you increase the efficiency with which you get an animal to sale. You’re decreasing your personnel overhead, and cutting down on time spent doing anything but getting the pig to the perfect weight for the highest price. You save on personnel time and training, the time no longer being necessary to teach someone to visually sort and classify each pig. The outdated system of eyeballing an animal and guessing at its weight is replaced by the essential technology that lets you either see the data on a screen on-site, or take it with you on a memory stick to review later. It may also be sent automatically to a local computer, or over the Internet to a central data system. You can better budget your feed money, and schedule health visits, saving you time in the rearing of the animals.
You can customize these scales to send the pig to up to five different areas, greatly reducing the time needed to visually sort the animals. A sorter can also be used to tell if pigs are at market weight of need to go back to the feeding pens for a time. You can tell if a pig needs to have food withheld prior to market sale, or if it needs more electrolyte water to reduce water shrinkage and to boost its weight and health just prior to market.
The sorter can be customized for visual separation of a sick animal, allowing it to be put in a separate pen for health maintenance. Similarly, pigs that are underweight can be automatically diverted to a pen where there’s higher-calorie, more nutrient-dense food. The weight being the indicator of progress, thinner pigs will be fattened up quicker, reducing the time you spend getting them ready for market.
Time to Market is Greatly Improved with Sorting Scales
There are the practical considerations of space, pens and feedlots set-up, personnel, feed, transportation, health maintenance (including vet bills, food, water, air circulation, supplements, room), which can make this an extremely difficult task to get the hog from being born to being a valuable sale commodity.
The invention of the sorting scale has been a huge boon to running a viable farm. It vastly improves your successes at market by lower the time needed to successfully feed and maintain the pig’s weight. Using alleys that individually sort the pigs for weighing, and then sending them to the appropriate feedlot is one way to aid in faster growth of the animal, and less time needed from you. The pig is individually weighed, and a determination is made based on the findings as to whether the pig needs more food and nutrients or less, or whether the pig is doing just fine within your timelines.
Without the time that’s needed to sort hogs by hand, you increase the efficiency with which you get an animal to sale. You’re decreasing your personnel overhead, and cutting down on time spent doing anything but getting the pig to the perfect weight for the highest price. You save on personnel time and training, the time no longer being necessary to teach someone to visually sort and classify each pig. The outdated system of eyeballing an animal and guessing at its weight is replaced by the essential technology that lets you either see the data on a screen on-site, or take it with you on a memory stick to review later. It may also be sent automatically to a local computer, or over the Internet to a central data system. You can better budget your feed money, and schedule health visits, saving you time in the rearing of the animals.
You can customize these scales to send the pig to up to five different areas, greatly reducing the time needed to visually sort the animals. A sorter can also be used to tell if pigs are at market weight of need to go back to the feeding pens for a time. You can tell if a pig needs to have food withheld prior to market sale, or if it needs more electrolyte water to reduce water shrinkage and to boost its weight and health just prior to market.
The sorter can be customized for visual separation of a sick animal, allowing it to be put in a separate pen for health maintenance. Similarly, pigs that are underweight can be automatically diverted to a pen where there’s higher-calorie, more nutrient-dense food. The weight being the indicator of progress, thinner pigs will be fattened up quicker, reducing the time you spend getting them ready for market.