We save 20 hours weekly after transitioning from manual milk allocation twice daily to an automated solution.
Additionally, we now get two extra piglets per sow.
Carsten Christiansen, Nygaard, 1000 sows
Baby Care - Milk feeding system for distribution of fresh milk to piglets
Get higher weaning weight with fewer nursing sows
Modern technologies allow for more piglets per sow, but how can you ensure they all have enough milk and gain weight? You can choose to have more nursing sows, but it increases the production costs.
A simple way to avoid extra nursing sows is to implement BabyCare milk system.
Baby Care is an automatic milk-feeding system that distributes fresh milk in a farrowing unit. The system ensures that all piglets have enough milk. When the piglets have constant access to milk, they gain a higher weight at weaning. When the piglets are 1 kilo heavier at weaning, they grow faster after weaning, giving a higher survival rate.
Reduce the number of nursing sows and save time
When the number of piglets per litter increases, it is essential to ensure that all the piglets have enough milk to reduce mortality.
Baby Care supplies extra milk so the piglets can drink the sow's milk and the milk powder. It means you avoid having additional nursing sows, thus reducing the number of farrowing pens and your production costs and saving man-hours.
Extra milk supply for piglets - 3 key benefits:
- Reduce the number of nursing sows:
Experience a notable increase in the number of weaning pigs, saving up to 12% in nursing sows. This improvement translates to a 2.9% rise in production results.
- Higher Production Results:
Enhanced welfare leads to more weaners. For farms with 1,000 sows, achieving 35 piglets per sow per year, our system can help to gain an additional 1,015 weaners annually.
- Optimize milk powder consumption:
The small diameter of the pipes means fewer residues and less waste. Combined with the automatic cleaning procedure, we estimate you can save 60 to 200 grams of milk powder per piglet annually. For a farm with 1,000 sows and 35 piglets per sow, this translates to savings of up to 2.000 to 7,000 kilograms of milk powder annually.
Touch screen with user-friendly interface
It is always possible to find the consumption in the system via the corresponding touch screen. Touch color display enabling all operations with
your finger tip. You can monitor the consumption of both water, milk and soap products.
Operating principles:
- In the corridor between farrowing departments, there is one forward line and one return line.
- Manual valves to select either water or milk for the piglets.
- Valve for circuit cleaning.
- Accumulation of consumption of both water, milk and soap products.
- Adjustment of recepy depending on the piglets' needs.
- Alarm output, for silo empty, and less consumption than yesterday.
