Optimization of water consumption in farrowing section

Abstract

   Along with feeding, the determining factor affecting the productivity of sows is the supply of clean, good-quality drinking water at the right temperature and in the right quantity at all stages of the reproductive cycle. When keeping sows in an industrial facility, significant amounts of water are consumed for technological needs. Overconsumption of water leads to an increase in the cost of manure disposal, and the ecological load due to the operation of a pig farming enterprise increases.

   In this regard, the issues of reducing water consumption for technological needs, which exceeds the needs for watering pigs, are of particular relevance, which has become the purpose of the scientific work.

   In the course of the research, water consumption standards for liquid type of feeding in heavily pregnant and lactating sows by seasons for drinking and performing technological operations in an industrial-type enterprise were established. The use of these standards made it possible to maintain a favorable microclimate in the farrowing section, as well as to save 5,964 liters of water (for 1 cycle of housing for 35 days) used for manure removal, which reduced the cost of animal housing, including the cost of water supply, processing, storage, transportation and disposal of manure effluent.