Electronic sow feeding

Complete solutions for pig farming Nedap offers efficient and clever solutions for animal care in the entire pig farming sector by means of electronic animal identification.

• Pig Performance Testing • Farrowing Feeding • Breeding Stall Feeding • Electronic Sow Feeding • Sow Separation • Sow Heat Detection • Pig Sorting

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Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding Sustainable and responsible: the trend The future will see a continued demand for sustainable and responsible production in the sow farming sector. The consumer dictates. The retailer selects. With group housing with feeding stations the animals roam freely and are able to display their natural behaviour; as a sow farmer you offer a clear response to the public demand for animal welfare and transparency. Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding assists you to combine a high level of care regarding animal welfare aspects with achieving your returns.

What does Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding offer?

With group housing with the Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding system you do not bring the feed to the pig; the pig comes to the feed. In the feeding station, sows can take the correct ration of feed at precisely the right moment: comfortably and safely. This saves time and energy for you, whilst you utilise the feed in the most effective manner. More live born piglets, fewer sows returning to heat and fewer leg problems remain aspects you can steer towards by ensuring good health.

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Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding assists you in this. Long-term, as the materials used by Nedap guarantee an extremely durable product.

Nedap provides scalable and flexible technology; a platform which is suitable both for large and small groups of sows within stable or dynamic group housing. Nedap technology links mechanisation and automation on the basis of electronic individual animal identification into one management system. The software, programmed based on the principle of ‘management by exception’, reports any points of attention for the pig farmer automatically - allowing you to take immediate and targeted action. The Nedap platform for the pig farming industry makes it very simple to combine various applications such as Sow Heat Detection, Sow Separation and now also Farrowing Feeding. This system allows you to track and manage the complete cycle of the animal. In addition, you can share the collected data with the appropriate partners such as slaughterhouses, breeders, veterinarians or feed suppliers. You are in control, thanks to the options for web integration provided by Nedap.

Increased returns - now and in the future Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding has more than proven its value: the improvements in the area of welfare, and the

Dynamic group quality and profitability of the production are demonstrably high. In the future Nedap will, together with you, further increase this profitability from your pig farm by continuing innovations in the field of electronic animal identification.

The scalable and flexible Nedap technology ensures that you will not stand still in regard to development and returns.

Nedap facilitates sustainable growth for producers in the pig farming sector - creating a healthy balance between work, profit and welfare.

NEDAP ELECTRONIC SOW FEEDING IN PRACTISE

“Improving technical results with ESF and good management This is the best solution for us and it’s also the cheapest way of keeping sows in groups. We lose very few sows and they rareley abort.

Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding: the system Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding

Nedap Sow Heat Detection

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Available with mechanical or pneumatic entrance door

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Available with trough shutter

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Available with separation for each feeding station

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Sow can leave the station without having to move backwards

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Double exit door prevents entry through this door

Detects sows in heat in a time

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Length and width adjustable to each type of pig

Reports heat immediately to the farmer

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Standard station can be set up as a learning station (also for gilts)

Immediately marks sows in heat; making them easily recognisable within the group

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Sidewall can be removed in 5 seconds without tools for access to the station

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Separates sows in heat from the group by means of the Sow Separation Station

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Top of the station is closed

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Stainless steel version

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Nedap Electronic Sow Separationstation

• Optimum access routes • Minimal loss of space • Separation at a particular place in the shed • Marking at a particular place in the shed • Simplicity itself: feed stations with no additional moving parts • ID Check automatically separates and marks sows without an electronic ear tag (RFID Tag) • Optimises heat detection result

A separation unit leads sows away from the front and discourages revisits.

Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding: the Benefits #1 Enhanced Efficiency and effectiveness in operational management

#3 More control, less effort

Group housing with feeding stations is about the requirements of both animals and people. House automation plays an important role in this respect, as it enables you to work in a far more efficiently and effectively. Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding cares for your sows, giving you time to pay attention to animals that actually need care.

#2 Calmer Groups The clever house structure that comes with Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding ensures that your animals have a sufficient amount of space. A special area has been allocated for all the needs of the sows. They can feed in the feeding station without interrupting others and have all freedom of movement they need to display their natural behaviour. This results in calmer groups.

The system provides you with the overview to monitor and manage your business.

The various functions of the barn in relation to the needs of the animal: 1 Lying area 1

2 Drinking Dunging Urinating Heat Detection

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In houses with Electronic Sow Feeding, the system gives you the appropriate support and the overview that you need in order to monitor and manage your business. It enables you to reduce the number of errors drastically. The system sends targeted alerts in the event of deviating sow behaviour or situations occurring in the house via your PC, tablet or smartphone. This means that you can respond adequately at all times, for example when a sow needs additional attention because she is in heat, is not eating well or has lost an ear tag.

#4 Improved image

#6 Improved Technical Results

The regulations and preferences for group housing in the sow farming sector have partly developed due to the public’s demand for animal welfare and transparency. Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding is a clear response to this demand. The public can see with their own eyes that the sows are kept in good surroundings and that they are free to display their natural behaviour.

Research conducted among various pig farms which have made the transfer to Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding demonstrates far better technical results: pregnant sows in improved health and had more piglets. Building a pig house with Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding stations does not require a higher investment from you than the traditional situation.

Therefore these are not empty promises, but proven results.

#5 Individual feeding

The graph below illustrates the importance of feeding the individual sows with care. The influence on the health condition of the sows is crucial.

#7 Nedap: innovative and reliable

Number of produced piglets

Number of piglets

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Although the sows are housed in a group, Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding is based on the concept that sows are fed individually. Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding safeguards the position of the individual animal within the group. The system ensures that your sows are, and remain, in the best possible health condition.

This guarantees you optimal production results, whilst the feed is being utilised in the most effective manner.

Health condition in relation to piglet production

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Live-born

Weaned

Difference in production of the number of live born and weaned piglets through the sample mean values of farms using Nedap ESF, compared with the sample mean of 1,000 farms without Nedap ESF.

The huge number of pig farmers that have meanwhile chosen to use Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding provides convincing results. As this technology has been thoroughly tried and tested in practice, you are assured of maximum reliability.

Nedap technology is ‘state of the art’ and always operational.

For years, without you having to worry about it. Behind this technology is a powerful and international business, which offers intelligent technological solutions for relevant themes.

Sufficient food for a growing population, clean drinking water all over the world and smart networks for sustainable energy are just a few examples of the subjects that Nedap is actively involved in.

Due to our increasing population and prosperity, dairy and meat producers have seen a rise in the demand for their products. This development is accompanied by increasingly stricter requirements in regard to the quality and safety of food.

Simultaneously, there is a rise in the costs of raw materials, labour and energy. This sector faces the challenge of producing sufficient supplies of safe, affordable and sustainable food of guaranteed quality from scarce resources.

For more than 30 years Nedap has developed and produced automation processes for livestock farming which are sold worldwide. Nedap recognises the challenges this sector is facing: the urgency to grow in a controlled manner which ensures that the balance between work, profit and welfare is considered at all times. Nedap facilitates automation, optimisation and the exchange of chain information regarding a large diversity of processes in and around the livestock farm, on the basis of electronic individual animal identification.

Feeding, milking, separating and heat detection: Nedap provides the technological solutions that make individual animal welfare and monitoring of both production and health manageable. This in turn makes healthy and sustainable growth achievable for producers in the livestock sector.

Nedap’s roots are deeply grounded in the livestock sector through many years of experience and expertise. Nedap recognises the requirements and expectations that exist in this sector in general, and those of our clients in particular and offers relevant solutions. Nedap has the courage to tread new paths and look towards fresh opportunities, based on the newest technological developments. Nedap utilises its experience and expertise actively for its customers, by continuously offering added value as a reliable partner.

Nedap is driven to provide a real contribution to healthy livestock farming: with sustainable solutions that substantially contribute to reliability, stability and returns.

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