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Well atleast Mr. hog you are trying to learn bit by bit. In the long run it will just be like a part of you. It would be like instinct. If you just need any clarification about swine raising jsut post here. I would try to help.

I do believe you need also to learn the in and out of your business to make it more profitable.

Mikey when your sows are pregnant you are not to give to much feeds.Thats what I was told.I

I will just elaborate on this.

On the first few days of pregnancy they do not give to much feed because they want the fetus inside the sow to be viable. To much feed sometimes would increase the body temperature of the animal thus it might affect the embryo inside the sow.

After a few days after the embryo settled/ implanted it self in the uterus then the feed  needs to be increased to help for the development of the embryo.

In the latter part of pregnancy the feeds in  changed to lactation for bone development and milk production. At this stage bone development of piglet is rapid and you need calcium to do it. One source of calcium is the feed lactation. If there is no source of calcium the sow will digest some of  its own bone to give to its piglet to develop its own. This would result weak leg for the sow because of the bone cannibalism that happens.

After farrowing the sow is given more feeds some computes it as 200-250 grams per piglet+ maintenance.
it means if the sow maintenance is 2 kilos + it has 10 piglets x 250 grams =2500 grams or 2.5 kgs= 4.5 kgs of feed per day.

Magleletson sometimes loves the native and it demands for a high price although market wise it is not that stable.

There are some farmers in ifugao and isabela that have done this. They breed their native to a largewhite or landrace. Yes if the sow is native the possibility of small litters is always their  because there body could not accommodate the huge number of piglets. While it is vice versa.

If you want to hang on the gene pool. I would suggest you breed native with native and try to select the larger pig then breed it again to a native until you have a native which is big or comparable to our commercial hog. Although this process will take years.

There are a tons of feeds ingredients that we could feed an animal the general rules is that as long you do not see any side effect then go for it. Just give it moderately until you can harvest.  Till then you will see whether it gives a good result or not.

By the way would you not earn more if you just sell the seaweeds rather than to feed it to your animal?

Is it not demand for seaweed are high especially for international market? Or that is another variety of sea weed?

Mr. hog, you could ask you're feed supplier for a feeding program specific to the brand you are using. Different feed company gives different feeding program although the difference in general is very minimal.

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Heat stress in poultry added august 22, 2007
Protecting poultry added august 23, 2007
Protecting poultry part2 added august 23, 2007
Pastured Turkey Production
avian influenza added September 6, 2007
Egg incubator added November 5, 2007
Freerange chicken added November 5, 2007


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Pasture Farming
Free range swine(cartoons) 08/29/07
Euthanasia in Swine 09/02/07
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Sow farrowing 09/19/07
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[9386]

A sow could farrow/give birth
2.4 times a year (365 days/ 151 days  {114 days(gestation)+30 days(lactating)7 (return to heat)}

you feed a sow depending the stage it is in.
 Your 2 kilo is enough for  dry sow (not pregnant and not lactating)

So i made a sample below it start day1 of pregnacy the cost of feeds is 850 pers sack breeder and 950 lactation.

                 Age  Days   Kilos     Total     price   Total price

                          28      2        56       17       952
                          64    2.5      160       17       2720
                           22     3        66       19       1254
                           30     5       150       19      2850
                          144                                  7776
     
plus 1110 meds and feeds of piglet and 500 med of sow

   7776
   1110
     500
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9386

10 piglets x 1800=   18 000- 9386= 8 614 * 2.4 =20 673.6 per year

estimate lang po ito. It would vary from price of feeds added cost like electricty etc.

Thank you for this info. Atleast we could all have a better idea on different housing construction cost. And like you said it will depend on materials and specs but at least this could be a simple guide.

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