and modern swine production three factors determine success breeding feeding and management that's talk first about breeding that our farm here in waterloo we select bo replacement two ways certification and fine evaluation station data this bore is well muscled and has adequate scale he was selected on breed certification information to be from a certified litter the animals must be from a litter of eight raised which made production right just three standard in certification to litter mates are slaughtered with these are must be l changes of back fat body length in excess of twenty nine inches and four square inches of line i muscle this wine evaluation station is one of many they should weigh two hundred thirty pounds or more at one hundred eighty days and good bedding provided now about the guild these animals weigh two hundred thirty pounds out of hundred eighty days and have less than one point three five twelve good outer sections from a litter of eight or more raised and have acceptable conformation for a guild should not be bred until it is eight months of age and during this time it should be a good growing russian when the guilt are old enough to be made on past your many producers get good results on dry lot doing the gestation period rations vary in different localities due to the seasons and conditions think you should be fed a ration prescribed by your state extension specialist or the feed manufacturer portable steel shelters provide shade in the summer and warm housing in the winter plain dry betting on the floor of the can is comfort and protection for the new we take them to inertia three and growing area where they nurse for five or six weeks until they are weaned they'll pick so best castrated during the second week and this time the pig should also be the hamilton brothers and i will falls there is a growing method using different equipment in arrangements they have combined selling and growing in this single unit the end of the bill a number of farmers will fare out twice a year spring and fall others to get the best use out of labor and equipment for all four times december to move the silent or litter out to a good legume past year after five days portable hog houses provide the necessary shelter basic requirements of the past your system should be clean ground tog tight with adequate chain og raised in this manner have no anemia and present no manure handling problems fouling during the summer in the same portable shade has also prove while this line feeder channels to pass in each of these systems a producers have raised a healthy forty lb pig to use sound management principles gauge should have at least one and a half inches of clearance off the concrete to provide free flow of manure and water fifty pigs of approximately the same weight i put in to reach inside for me tight wall in the winter and from it good ventilation and shade in the summer in winter the drinking water should be kept at forty degrees and to prevent greenbacks watering cups are raised four inches off the concrete this was most breathing problems of a pressure system if used there should be there are some other finishing operations i am seen which are well worth mentioning the francis cart farm at frankfort indiana is a good example of a completely automated swine finishing operation water is under pressure where the feeders are easily filled from a cellphone loading wagon in this operation water is by design logs in the f as provide summer comfort durable easily moved any early drain in some areas hogs clean corn fields after harvest and follow cattle sixty percent of the farmers corn harvest ing losses can be recovered by letting hogs and cattle glean the corn fields these dogs have been charted and weighed two hundred to two hundred twenty pounds they should be loaded carefully to prevent bruises and loss and move quickly to a market for packing plants by showing you some of the operations of other successful producers we've tried to highlight for