With the integration of new generation information technology such as artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing with the pig industry becoming deeper and deeper, the upgrading pace of equipment is gradually accelerating, and intelligent pig equipment continues to emerge, which greatly improves the efficiency of pig production. With the blessing of intelligent breeding equipment and digital management system, the biosafety prevention and control of building pig breeding is more effective. At the World Swine Industry Expo, some experts shared their views on the systematic way to raise pigs in buildings.

Pay attention to building construction site selection and building design, as far as possible to cut off the transmission of pathogens

1. Building location

The siting of high-rise pigs is a complex and important process that requires a combination of factors to ensure the biosafety, productivity and environmental sustainability of pig farms. From the point of view of biosafety, when building a building pig farm: first, it is necessary to stay away from the source of pollution. The second is the requirements of terrain and soil. The third is the convenience of transportation.

2. Building design

According to the requirements of high-intensity biosafety prevention and control, the design of the pig house should only preserve the passage of people and objects entering and leaving the pig house at both ends. The bottom floor should be raised, and the building to building, the layer to layer, and the unit should be independent and completely closed. Through negative pressure ventilation, the bottom floor takes in air and the top floor takes out air, so as to cut off the spread of pathogens from the physical space. In this way, the cross infection caused by traditional pig farm personnel, materials, and sick and dead pigs sharing the road is avoided.

Optimize the pig production process to minimize the flow of materials, personnel and pig herds

1. Implement batch production management

Batch production is not only conducive to balanced, orderly, full load production management, improve labor productivity and employee happiness, improve the overall economic benefits of pig farms, but also from the perspective of biosecurity, can reduce the frequency of pig herd movement, conducive to biosecurity and disease prevention and control.

2. Sows adopt closed breeding mode

From the perspective of high-intensity biosecurity prevention and control, sows in building pig farms are best to adopt a closed breeding mode to achieve internal supply of gilts, and foreign introductions are no longer required after one introduction, greatly reducing the invasion probability of foreign viruses.

3. Apply intelligent farming equipment and digital management to minimize personnel flow

With the deep integration of the new generation of information technology such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and big data with the breeding industry, a large number of intelligent breeding equipment into the pig house, at present, all stages of pig production can achieve different degrees of intelligent production and digital management, greatly reducing the traditional manual inspection workload, reducing the flow of personnel in the pig house, reducing the risk of disease transmission.

Establish strong biosafety management procedures

In order to prevent the spread of pig farm diseases, the internal pig farm should establish a high-intensity biosafety management procedure, strictly check the various links such as breeding pigs, semen, personnel, feed, and vehicles, enhance the biosafety awareness of employees, and create a safe and healthy environment for the pig herd.

Strengthen the software management of pig farms, and build a long-term mechanism for biosafety prevention and control of pig farms

1. Improve employees' awareness of biosafety

The best pig farm design and advanced facilities and equipment ultimately need to rely on people to realize their functions, and biosafety is no exception. Therefore, improving the biosafety awareness of all employees, especially front-line employees, plays a key role in the biosafety prevention and control of pig farms, and pig farms need to regularly conduct biosafety training and drills for them.

2. Implement biosafety standardization operations

The biosafety prevention and control of building pig breeding involves all aspects of pig production, and clear operating norms must be established, which is also one of the requirements of modern pig farm standardized production. Therefore, standardized biosafety operating procedures (Sops) are developed and strictly implemented to ensure that all biosafety measures can be effectively implemented.

3. Strengthen daily supervision of biosafety

It is an important measure to strengthen the supervision and inspection of daily biosafety measures of pig farms and to find and correct the existing problems in time to ensure the health and production safety of building pig herds. It includes the supervision of personnel, environment, vehicles and materials, disease surveillance and system construction and implementation.

Conclusion

Biosafety is the lifeline of building pig, although there are still some pain points and difficult problems of biosafety prevention and control in building pig, but as long as a high-intensity building pig biosafety prevention and control system is built and strictly implemented, it will certainly change people's awareness of building pig biosafety prevention and control, so that more building pig enterprises can get out of the dilemma.

If you would like to learn more about the pig industry, please visit the World Swine Industry Expo website for more information.

Source:SWINE INDUSTRY SCIENCE

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