Pig Farming

Intensive animal production systems involving housing of animals and high density living space, often create issues around animal health and odor problems with the associated manure accumulation.

EM technology can be great tool for these intensive animal systems, and allows the management of these systems with reduction in health issue, in odor issues and can improve feed conversions efficiencies.

Key areas of applications in Pig Farming:

Odor Control

• Adding EM-A at 1 litre per cubic metre of manure, by dosing the pens, sumps and holding tanks

• Spraying the bedding and housing areas with EM-A at 1% weekly

• After mucking out, and between batches of animals, spray all housing surfaces as above

Feeding and Animal Health

• Add EM-A to drinking water at 0.05%

• Add 4 litre of EM-A per tonne of finished feed mixed in just prior to feeding

• Add feed Bokashi as a ration at 2-3% of feed quantity

Note Many of the recommendations are for extended EM (EM-A) except for feed bokashi. This makes for economic use, BUT the process for extending EM must be clean and well controlled. That is a closed container (plastic with fitted lid), with controlled heating. And strict use by date (e.g. 1 week after brewing completed). It would be useful to have a programme that starts with EM extension,… say each Monday. The EM-A used that week will have been started the Monday before, and the EM-A left over from the previous week gets tipped into the sump or sprayed onto the pens. The EM-A going to the animals must be top quality.

For a case study…read... Leap of Faith, Grant Williams Pig Farmer

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