Sow stall

Below is an introduction to the sow gestation stall product:

Basic Information

- Definition: Sow gestation stalls emerged in the 1980s as a product of industrialized pig farming, designed to restrict the daily behavior of sows, facilitating quality management and streamlined operations for breeding sows.
- Material: Typically constructed from hot-dip galvanized steel pipes through welding, they are characterized by sturdiness, durability, corrosion resistance, and ease of cleaning.

Specifications and Dimensions

- Common Specifications: The height is generally 1000mm, the length is often 2200mm, and the width commonly ranges from 600-700mm.
- Other Specifications: Binong's sow gestation stalls come in sizes such as 2200×1000×650mm, 2200×1000×600mm, and 2100×1000×550mm.

Structural Design

- Stall Structure: Composed of a front door with a feeding trough, a rear door, side main frames, and anti-jump pressure bars.
- Floor Design: Includes types such as fully solid floors and slatted floors. For slatted floors, the slats are typically 8cm wide with gaps of 2cm.
- Drinking and Feeding Devices: Equipped with drinkers and feeding troughs; some models also include measuring cups and sow feed lines. Drinkers can be standard front-mounted types or ground-trough direct drinkers.

Product Advantages

- Space Saving: Effectively conserves space, maximizing the use of limited building area, allowing more sows to be raised in the same space.
- Ease of Management: Facilitates the management of pregnant sows and streamlines operations such as feeding and manure cleaning, making these tasks easier. Supports mechanization, reducing labor costs.
- Precise Feeding: Allows for adjusting feed amounts for each sow based on growth and body condition, overcoming the issue of dominant sows monopolizing feed in group pens, ensuring balanced growth.
- Estrus Observation: Makes it easier to monitor estrus in sows, enabling timely detection of estrus in stalls, accurately determining the optimal breeding time, and performing artificial insemination promptly to improve conception rates during estrus.

Drawbacks

- Limb and Hoof Injuries: Slats that are too narrow or gaps that are too wide in the rear slatted floors, or overly smooth solid floors, can easily cause various limb and hoof issues such as suspended hoof bruises, fractures, splayed hind legs, and medial heel inflammation.
- Urogenital System Issues: Difficulty in maintaining environmental cleanliness leads to contamination of the sow's hindquarters with feces and urine. Combined with low water flow from drinkers and lack of exercise, this increases the risk of ascending urinary tract infections and postpartum infections.
- Behavioral and Psychological Problems: Sows kept long-term in monotonous environments lack social interaction and adaptability to complex settings, leading to stereotypical behaviors, difficulty in transitioning between pens, a high proportion of silent estrus, and some sows may even develop hysteria.