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5,000 sow "mountain farm"

Video tour of a 5000-sow farm located on a mountaintop near ShenNonh Dali in the Sichuan Province of China.

This remote sow unit produces and tests breeding stock from an 896-crate farrowing house, 4,400-stall gestation building, 50-place boar stud, GDU/Iso barn, and 15-room testing facility. Hog Slat designed the unit and supplied AirStorm fiberglass fans; feeding equipment including feed bins, sow drops, and Grow-Disk systems. Hog Slat's SowMAX feed dispensers provide simple, dependable ad lib sow feeding in the farrowing crates.

 

 

 

 

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