Electronic Sow Feeding
Designed with the sow's needs first
Those sows aren’t complaining
Designed with the sow's needs first
With Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding, you can ensure each sow gets the individual feed and care she needs, as well as the benefits of being in a calm gestation group. Nedap can design the automated feeding concept into any size operation, including new or remodeled buildings. Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding can help you eliminate feed waste and optimize whole-herd feed efficiency. How? With accurate data at your fingertips, you can set feed plans for each sow.
The system automatically adjusts diets, and your sows stay in optimal body condition. The system is designed with the sow’s needs in mind. It allows each sow to eat safely, without interruption and walk forward, away from the group, when she’s finished. The unique design of group sow gestation pens with Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding keeps sows calm and supports a productive atmosphere. The design incorporates feed-stations with forward-exits, which has been proven for decades to minimize sow injury and stress by separating fed and unfed sows.
The benefits of individual sow feeding with Nedap Livestock Management
- Forward-exit feeders prevent conflict between fed and unfed sows
- Dual feed lines and easy-to-use software make it easy to maintain sow body condition
- Water dosing option encourages sows to eat full ration
- Farms report zero aggression at feeding stations
- Barn is quieter. Air quality and lighting are often improved
- Farms report up to 20% feed savings compared to stalls
Dave Denys, farmer in Parkhill Ontario:
“When a sow leaves the feed unit, she has to walk down the full length of the barn and back again. Most of the time on her walk back, she decides to lay down and sleep. With other styles of feeding systems, sows want to get back into the feeder, which creates aggression and puts more wear and tear on equipment.”
Nedap technology in action
How would precise, individual sow feeding change things on your farm?
"I think the producers need to get into an ESF building and see the animals up close. They will be impressed."
About the farm
- 5,500 sows in Nedap ESF
