Greetings!

I have made a on-line cost and return for swine (piglet production= from gilt to weaning)

Just input the number of gilts you want to raise and click compute.

Here is the link on-line cost and return

Nice price. Hope it would go until April

Thank you Slyfox for the price updates.

Price depends on weight of the animal and the liveweight price per kilo.

Backyard in bulacan would range today from 75-82 pesos per kilo liveweight

SO, if your animal is 85 kgs x 75 per kilo= 6375 pesos.

In some area there are bracket system on which animal below 80 kgs will have a different pricing compared to those above 80 kgs (usually much cheaper).

Usually this is a problem encountered if you acquire your gilts all at the same time.

THe only way to program your production is to sacrifice one or two heat cycle but this will be financial burden for your part.

Example:

If 4 animal will come to heat this month. You will only breed the 3 and the other sow will be mated in the next heat cycle/ next month. And if that time come and if more than 3 sows are to be mated drop another sow and mate only 3 sows.

Draw back is that from the 3 mated you are not sure that they will not return to heat (maglandi uli/di nagtuloy ang pagbubuntis.)

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I think the best option you can do if you are into breeding to fattening system is to sell first your piglets to have enough funds.  then wait for the sows to fail on its own, chances are  there is a 10-20% failure in breeding. Those sow that failed will be the one that will be programmed. Breed it in the month with the least sows to be bred.

IF you want to add a new gilt anticipate what month you have the least scheduled mating then count 2 months backward that is the best time to buy a gilt assuming the gilt is 6 months old.

Also you need to add another farrowing pen if you want to add a gilt

Bigger farm tends to have lower production  say in 500 sow it would produce tentatively around 625 piglet per month but cost to produce tends to be much lower also.

To get the number of pigs per month multiple the number of sow by 1.5

100 sow x 1.5 =150 pigs per month

some bigger farms multiple the sow by 1.25

1.5 is the standard used in computation.

Nope, i don't have a farm. Standard na po siya as to my knowledge.

Actually my brother have a semi commercial farm around 40-50 sow lang siya for 2 years in his fattening section i only remembered around 10 deaths. Although mortality in farrowing to weaning is high around maybe 15 percent.

except this year on which they have so many mortality because of the outbreak.

range of 10-20kgs or some estimate as liveweight x 80% you could also use what pig_pinoy have posted.

If the sow is not pregnant you can give dexamethasone this is for the inflamation of leg.

If the animal is pregnant i will suggest to give  additional calcium source like cecical.  Vitamins would also help

If the condition of the animal becomes worst then give antibiotik like amoxicillin

Gud day,

You may pm alaminosgoat about price of buck and doe.  He do sell quality goat.

And if you want to know more about goat please pm Mr. mikey he is very passionate about goat raising.

thank you

a 100 sow farm will produce 150 fatteners per month. yeah average na yan or 1800 pig per year.

Mortality less than 10% sa piglets/nursing
and less than 6 percent sa fattening stage.

DA launches incubation facility
 


By MELODY M. AGUIBA

A natural ingredients industry that can capture part of a $ 60-billion industry globally is seen to emerge from an incubation facility launched by government Wednesday to commercialize start-up technologies.


The incubation facility is enabling government to aid micro-enterprises to tap the country’s rich indigenous resource to produce value-added pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food, and industrial goods.

DA is now coming up with a national blueprint for natural ingredients and a formation of clustering strategies of industries.

The facilities at the Department of Agriculture’s Biotechnology Business Incubation Facility (DABBIF) such as fermenting devices, centrifuge (device used in chemistry, biology, biochemistry to isolate suspensions) or autoclave (device to heat solutions for sterilization) may have just been accumulated from abandoned laboratories.

But their value is of utmost significance specially now that a national consciousness has been emerging on the presence of many plant and animal species in the country that can have huge economic value.

Aside from malunggay, the indigenous crops that hold important commercial potential are banaba, sambong, luyang dilaw, chichirica, bawang or garlic, saluyot, achuete, lagundi, mangosteen, and papaya.

A host of biotechnology initiatives by DA targets to capture a portion of international markets out of these native species. These are from various sectors including chemicals, $ 10 billion; health care, $ 8.5 billion; pollution control, $ 0.4 billion; cosmetics, $ 10 billion; medicine, $ 58 billion; agricultural applications, $ 8 billion; and food, $ 12 billion.

DA is also putting up a $ 2 million Fluid Extraction Unit which will enable the country to establish an essential oils industry.

"The country is missing the world trade export of essential oils, perfumes and flavors which is estimated to have a $ 8.2 billion (UN Trade Yearbook 1999," according to a DA Biotechnology Program report.

National Agribusiness Corp. President Alan Javellana said the BBIF will be open to any interested locator or micro-enterprise that wants to use the facilities for a certain fee.

"A venture may be small, but since we have the laboratory, it can start building its assets from very minimal costs. On their own, businesses have to acquire these facilities at a cost in millions," Javellana said in an interview.

DA’s Biotechnology Program estimated that malunggay alone, used for food fortification and industrial processing , can generate a net income of P600,000 per hectare per year. Achuete, used as dye for food and other consumer goods can give a P250,000 per hectare per year income while papaya’s latex used for cosmetic and pharmaceutical products, can generate P100,000 per hectare per year.

The country’s importation of essential oil inputs amounts to 90 percent of the local requirement since local production only totals to three metric tons yearly.

The extraction unit will tap local essential oil raw materials from sampaguita, ilang-ilang, vertiver grass, lemongrass, mango, tomato, papaya, and other local materials.

Job generation from the essential oils industry is placed at 3,000 semiskilled and 150 skilled works. This will raise farmers’ income significantly even as lemongrass for essential oil gives a gross income of $ 6,000 per hectare to West African farmers.

While these native crops can be grown in marginalized areas, these surprisingly have higher value because of their industrial applications. DA cited that banaba leaves can be sold at P20 to P25 per kilo compared to rice’s only P11-12 per kilo and corn’s P13 per kilo.

The Philippines is recognized to have the second richest biodiversity resource in the world with flora of 13,500 species accounting for five percent of the world’s flora. And while the country has identified 25 genera of endemic plants, 700 fungi species, 790 lichens species, five to eight percent of the country’s flora remain unidentified.

Among government’s efforts to boost the natural ingredients and essential oils industry are the setting up of science-based regulations to keep purity of local plant varieties; formulation of safety and quality standards for natural ingredients manufacturing; clinical trials documenting nutritional value of crops in order to boost their markets; and strengthening of the presence of analytical laboratories to develop expertise in the analysis of bioactive ingredients.
 
source: manila bulletin

Sugarcane juice is an effective corn replacement and energy feed for swine.  Extruded mixture of sweet potato and copra are good partial direct corn replacement while fresh tomato pomace or FTP are effective feed for growing and fattening pigs.

Growing-finishing pigs fed with sugarcane juice-based ration showed good performance and efficiency in terms of average daily gain and total live-weight gain.  Carcass evaluation of pigs fed with sugarcane-based diets also showed better dressing percentage, lesser back-fat thickness, firm fat, and leaner muscle tissue than those fed with commercial feeds.

Sows fed with sugarcane juice-based ration showed high conception rate, good litter size at birth, and furrowing index compared to pigs fed with commercial diet.

Extruded mixture of copra (30 percent) and sweet potato (70 percent) partially replaced 20-30 percent of corn in the ration.  Mineral analysis of the extrusion showed the presence of calcium and phosphorus that can replace up to 30 percent of corn in the grower diets without significant depression in feed intake, live weight gain, and feed efficiency.

Fresh tomato pomace produced from processing of tomato into tomato paste, on the other hand, contains crude protein, crude fat, crude fiber, nitrogen-free extract, and calcium phosphorus.  Studies showed that 35 percent of fresh tomato paste fed as substitute for commercial mash in the finishing pigs resulted in significantly higher final weight, total gain weight, daily gain weight and feed consumption than those fed with commercial feeds.  Feed cost per kilogram gain significantly decreased with increasing levels in FTP use.

Growing pigs fed with FTP had final total weight gain, average daily gain, and feed efficiency comparable to those pigs fed with 100 percent commercial feeds.  Feeding six percent of FTP significantly increased feed consumption yet reduced feed cost per kilogram gain.

With these agricultural feed substitutes, ensuring swine productivity at minimal cost will surely be beneficial to the country's swine raisers.

source:stii

Yeah, swine in bulacan is profitable the only drawback is that spread of disease is also fast.

Swine farm and backyards are always in close proximity from one another. So, if one farm is hit by a disease chances are it will spread also into the backyard level.

Good for you.  Swine business life relay mainly in the piglet production aspect. If you produce your own piglet then you will have a steady supply of hogs.