GLOBALPIG A. EROLES: “WITH THE DOSITRONIC WE SAVE A LOT OF TIME AT WORK” Located in Castellserà (Lleida), this farm with 500 sows has Rotecna’s Dositronic system for sows and pregnant sows. Early in his childhood, Albert Eroles knew that his future would be linked to pig breeding. After spending long hours on his father’s and grandfather’s farm, he entered the family business. Once he joined, the family began to make the first changes to the farm, fattening and hosting the first sows. Today, that fattening farm has been converted into a sows farm. In its efforts to develop its facilities, Eroles installed the electronic feeding system for sows and sows in gestation, Rotecna’s Dositronic. He tells us about the excellent results he has obtained. What is the origin of the farm? This farm was built by my grandfather and father around 1970, initially as a fattening farm. Years later, my father started introducing some 10
Albert Eroles, with his son Marcel and an employee on the farm Photo: Rotecna.
sows. Soon after, with my inclusion in the business, we increased the number of sows, we implemented a closed cycle. Now, with the collaboration of my son Marcel who a few years ago also joined the company, we are working only to have sows and weaning. How is the farm distributed? We currently have 298 places in copulation control, 530 in confirmed gestation and 180 in farrowing. Having removed fattening, we have redistributed the farm’s allocation units, and now we are trying to increase the number of sows to 1,000. To reach this number, we are
carrying out various expansion and improvement projects on our facilities. In this sense, a while ago, we decided to install the electronic feeding system for sows in farrowing and gestation. Why did you decide on the Dositronic electronic feeding system? The decision was mainly motivated by the change in emphasis of the farm activity, that is, by going from a closed cycle to just sows. Since Rotecna told us about this product, we thought it would fit very well with our farm. We found it an exciting development, and the truth is
