PHOTO REPORT: Smeenk Farm, Haarle, Netherlands
//10 feb 2011
Within less than two years, all breeding farms in the European Union have to keep their gestating sows in group housing as from a month after insemination. Some producers, however, are experimenting further with the theme. Why keep them in crates for that first month? Smeenk Farms in Haarle, the Netherlands, tried to keep them in crates for only a couple of days – and with success, Vincent ter Beek, editor Pig Progress, found out.
在接下来的不到2年内，所有欧洲的猪场必须要将他们的妊娠母猪在配种一月后转入群养圈饲养。然而，一些养殖者，正在试验更进一步。为什么配种后还要将母猪在限位栏中囚禁一个月？荷兰的Smeenk农场，试图将母猪配种后数天内就转出限位栏——他们成功了！
“猪业进展”（PigProgress）网站Vincent ter Beek报道。
Farm in Haarle, Overijssel, the Netherlands, expanded greatly in 2008, from 250 to 1,000 sows. Ever since, the breeding farm has also been a test farm for De Heus Feeds.
Smeenk农场位于荷兰Overijssel的Haarle，2008年完成了扩建，从250头增加到1000头。从那时起，该农场还成为了De Heus Feeds的试验场。
Prior to this, owner Hennie Smeenk, 50, and his wife Yvonne had been considering to move to Canada after Foot-and-Mouth struck the whole of the Netherlands, including their farm. Eventually, personal reasons made the couple decide to stay and expand.
这之前，由于口蹄疫席卷过整个荷兰，农场主Hennie Smeenk和他的夫人Yvonne曾考虑将家和猪场都搬迁至加拿大。最终，他们还是决定继续留下来且扩大规模。
The new facility is characterised by high biosecurity. Gestating sows, farrowing crates and weaners, each part has a different colour – and hence e.g. footwear needs constant changing.
新场对生物安全高度重视。妊娠母猪区、产房区和保育区，每个区域都有不同的颜色，因此，在猪场工作，鞋子等需要经常换来换去。
The colour ‘blue’ is for the breeding section.
产房是蓝色工作区。
Smeenk reaches impressive figures with 31.2 weaned piglets/sow/year...
Smeenk农场的生产指标给人深刻印象：每头母猪每年平均贡献31.2头断奶保育猪。
…with liveborn piglets/sow/year amounting to 35.8
每头母猪每年产活崽数是35.8头。
Average litter size is 14.4
平均窝产活崽数是14.4头。
Pre-weaning mortality is 12.3%, with an aim to bring it down to 10%
仔猪断奶前死亡率是12.3%，农场希望降到10%。
Sows farrow 2.48 litters per year.
母猪们平均年产2.48胎。
Ambition can be seen from the targets on the wall. Figures in red indicate where the farm’s challenges are, figures in blue are targets that are met. “When there is too much blue, we simple adjust the targets,” Smeenk explains.
墙上的生产指标设定显示了农场的雄心。红色的数字是农场需要挑战的目标，蓝色数字是已经达成的目标。“当大多数数字都变成蓝色，我们就要调整提升生产指标啦”——Smeenk说
When sows come in from group housing to the farrowing shed, they can be cleaned within five to ten minutes in this corridor. There is space for 12 sows at the time.
当母猪们从群养妊娠舍转往产房，它们要在此过道洗澡5-10分钟。该过道一次可供12头木猪洗澡。
Smeenk uses Topigs 20 gilts with a Piétrain sire line. Gestating sows are not kept in crates, according to new EU regulations, but in groups of approximately 50 sows.
One of the most striking features of the farm is the fact that sows go back into group housing within days after insemination, mostly two to three days. They will stay for two insemination rounds after which they are released back into group housing.
Results seem to prove the strategy is right. Recent research in the Netherlands also indicates that contrary to common belief it does not harm pig embryos when the sows may get involved in some initial fighting when released into groups again.
Feeding in the group housing is carried out by use of the Nedap Velos feeding stations. Some sows choose to go in straightaway whereas others choose to wait outside the feeding stations.
This department is the ‘learning pen’, where young gilts are being trained to get used to ESF stations. It’s what Smeenk calls ‘the most important pen of the farm’.
Some gilts have to learn that boots may not be as nutritious.
Smeenk does not need too many waiting areas as the sows are released from the insemination zone within three to five days after service.
Weaners stay on Smeenk farm until they are on average 23 kg.
The new facility also complies with modern-day environmental legislation as it has modern air filtration equipment at the outside.
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