Laia Calderó Puig (left) and Cristina San- martín Ruíz vac- cinating a piglet against PCV2. Note the yellow light in the vaccination device.
The V-Etic shows a light blue light: a sow is detected.
Group housing with viewing gallery What emerged was a 3,310 sow farrow-to-wean facility which features large, open group housing facilities for gestating sows. From a viewing gallery above, the vast pig house can be ad- mired to its full extent. Sows as far as the eye can see, resting in tranquillity – some alone, others next to or half on top of each other. The odd animal is making a stroll and a few are waiting at the entrance of the Electronic Sow Feeding (ESF) stations. Equally interesting is the on-site pharmacy: A very well organ- ised room with, as a room divider in the middle, an open cup- board with neatly sorted all types of animal health products that do not need cooling.
All injections will be communicated to a handheld device using Bluetooth.
Ricardo Segundo Cochran, training manager at OPP, explains: “We have evolved our concept of pharmacy management, since we built this farm in 2009. We conceived the veterinary on-farm pharmacy, to allow for an electronic certification. This is; the animal health products are being physically introduced to the farm, placed in the deposit, and recorded in the software. From there, they are moved on a weekly basis to pass through shelves to the pharmacy, where the farm employees use them.”
Farm’s Mother Yet, what makes the farm and it’s owning company OPP doubly interesting is the development of an underlying
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