The on-site pharmacy with medication having been organised very neatly.
philosophy and working method. After all, attention for as- pects like welfare and transparency are one thing to achieve – but how to prove these aspects beyond doubt at the end of the day? And how to still keep things simple? To this end, OPP hired a great number of developers and data experts to develop a management software system that is called ‘Farm’s Mother’ – a web based system designed to be the mother of all existing systems. Feeding, environment, pig health, transport – the list of apps, sensors and comput- er-driven devices is growing, yet Farm’s Mother is designed to bring it back to one interface. Currently, the system is available in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Polish and English – with undoubtedly more to follow. OPP reached out to a great number of companies in the international business, some of which actively cooperate and interact with the open platform, including Skov, MIK and Schauer.
A sow with her litter and paper snippets for distraction material.
Vaccination system To dive a bit deeper, it is interesting to zoom in on the animal health side of the OPP approach. The company was looking for a system that could answer essential questions as to which vaccines and antibiotics are being given, to which ani- mals, by whom, in what time span and how much is left of everything. Several companies are currently marketing intelli- gent devices that often support the tracking of their own products. Yet no swine farm uses products from only one ani- mal health company. In addition, Farm’s Mother was looking for a system that could be integrated in to their own. OPP therefore turned to German syringe manufacturer Hen- ke-Sass, Wolf (HSW) to jointly embark on the design of a new concept, called the V-Etic. This add-on low frequency ID (LFID) module, which works with any HSW Eco-Matic syringe (from 0.1 ml to 5 ml). It allows veterinarians to record every animal health related injection, using Bluetooth and an app on a mobile phone or a handheld device. The end of the module lights up dark blue when it is search- ing for ear tags or corresponding location tags (in farrowing rooms) – and this colour changes to a softer shade of blue when a sow has been detected. The injection follows and the module changes colour to green for a successful operation. By aiming for a location tag rather than an ear tag, it is possi- ble to use the same system for piglets as well. As soon as more than one injection is given with the same tag, the system knows this is because the operator has started working with piglets. Every successful injection will therefore be confirmed with the end of the module showing a yellow light – which indeed is the yellow light addition from the initial paragraph.
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Vaccination process Back to the vaccination process from the initial paragraph. Once Laia Calderó Puig has returned to the farm office, she can synchronise her PCV2 vaccination data with the V-Etic management programme. Basically everything there is to
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