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Spring Producer Meetings

Mar 20, 2015

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Tuesday, March 24

Swift Current, Saskatchewan

Days Inn

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 26

Red Deer, Alberta

iHotel

6500 67th Street

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Friday, March 27

Lethbridge, Alberta

Sandman Hotel

421 Mayor Magrath Drive

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

PROGRAM

Practical Solutions to Meeting the Code of Practice , Yolande Seddon, Prairie Swine Centre

The Code for the care and handling of pigs released in 2014 requires potential management changes for producers. What changes should producers we aware of and how do we address these changes practically?

Managing Utility Costs: How Can we Better Manage the Barn Environment?, Ken Engele, Prairie Swine Centre

Utility costs rank third overall next to feed and labour. What areas to producers need to address to ensure utility costs stay managable

Dealing with Re-emerging Enteric Disease in Grow/Finish, Keith Erlandson, DVM, Elanco Animal Health

A deeper dive into brachyspira, learn how lessen the impact on your farm

Transitioning to Group Sow Housing : One Producer’s Experience, Kase van Ittersum

Learn about the challenges and successes of managing sow groups and gain practical information from a producer that can be applied on your farm.

Transitioning to Group Sow Housing: What Does the Science Say?, Yolande Seddon, Prairie Swine Centre

What does the science say about designing a system that takes into account management, building design, sow longevity, and cost.

Code of Practice and Group Sow Housing: Q & A Panel (Your questions answered! Live question and answer session) Producer, TBD and Jennifer Brown, Prairie Swine Centre

Bring your questions on group sows housing, sow management and the Code of Practice. Our expert panel will provide answers and share their experience through an interactive panel discussion.

To register for this seminar, please contact Abel Lopez, Elanco Animal Health

Phone: (306) 280-0240

“Elanco is proud to support innovation and enable information sharing to producers”
Prairie Swine Centre would like to thank Elanco Animal Health for their sponsorship and promotion of these meetings

E-Mail: Lopez_abel@elanco.com

Source: Prairieswine

Video: Cleaning Sheep Barns & Setting Up Chutes

Indoor sheep farming in winter at pre-lambing time requires that, at Ewetopia Farms, we need to clean out the barns and manure in order to keep the sheep pens clean, dry and fresh for the pregnant ewes to stay healthy while indoors in confinement. In today’s vlog, we put fresh bedding into all of the barns and we remove manure from the first groups of ewes due to lamb so that they are all ready for lambs being born in the next few days. Also, in preparation for lambing, we moved one of the sorting chutes to the Coveralls with the replacement ewe lambs. This allows us to do sorting and vaccines more easily with them while the barnyard is snow covered and hard to move sheep safely around in. Additionally, it frees up space for the second groups of pregnant ewes where the chute was initially.