the type of business you want to run. Expenses can make or break a business. Find out what expenses you need to be aware of when you start pig farming.
1. WHY START PIG FARMING?
Pig farming only needs a small investment in buildings and equipment. Pig farming also offers quick returns because the marketable weight of fatteners (piglets youβre raising for the freezer) can be reached within six to eight months.
Pig farming only needs a small investment in buildings and equipment. Pig farming also offers quick returns because the marketable weight of fatteners (piglets youβre raising for the freezer) can be reached within six to eight months.
Pigs have the highest feed conversion efficiency. This means pigs produce more live weight from a given weight of feed than any other class of meat-producing animal, with the exception of broiler chickens. wide variety of feeds, such as:
Grains
Premixes
Straight meals
Grains
Premixes
Straight meals
* Forages
* Damaged feeds
* Garbage.
All of which pigs convert into valuable nutritious meat.
Top tip: Feeding your pigs damaged grains, garbage and other unbalanced rations can result in lower feed efficiency.
* Damaged feeds
* Garbage.
All of which pigs convert into valuable nutritious meat.
Top tip: Feeding your pigs damaged grains, garbage and other unbalanced rations can result in lower feed efficiency.
The pig is prolific and has a shorter generational interval. As an example, a sow can be bred from the age of eight to nine months and can farrow (give birth to a litter of piglets) twice or thrice in a year
9 to 15 piglets can be produced in each farrowing. Pigs are usually known for their meat production: Their dressing percentage which is the percent of the live animal that ends up as carcass can range from 65-80% whereas other livestock usually doesnβt exceed 65%.
Pork is the most nutritious when it has high fat and low water content. It has a better energy value than any other meat. It is also rich in vitamins such as thiamine, niacin, and riboflavin and is the most consumed meat globally.
Pig manure is commonly used for fertilizer in agricultural farms and fish ponds. Also, pig fat, which is stored rapidly by pigs, has an increasing demand from poultry feed, soap, paints and other chemical industries.
There is a good demand from the domestic and international market for pig products.
To be continued......
To be continued......
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