Many other aspects of crate design are crucial to sow and piglet performance, in particular height of the bottom rails which affects teat accessibility, rear bar design (some cause vulva damage) and presence of bolts or sharp edges which may cause injury. Most of the problems experienced could be avoided by utilizing pig dimensions at the design stage. Finally, consider the male of the species. Higher mature body weights for sows and boars means that many boar pens used for service do not allow good courtship behaviour and sometimes extreme difficulty in mounting. Minimum length of any side of the pen should be 2.5m (8ft 3ins) and ideally more to achieve an effective service. Mroz Z, Jongbloed AW, Van Diepen JThM, Vreman K, Keeme PA, Jongbloed R, Lenis NP, and Kogut J. Excretory and physiological consequences of Thulin AJ, Arthur R, Brumm MC, Crenshaw J, Jesse GW, Libal GW, Moser RL, Shurson GC, and Zimmerman DR. Effects of water flow rate from nipple The pig is a small animal and passive mob that can be spawned using a pig spawn egg, which can be bought from Taliyah at level 31 Animal Care.

Nienaber JA, and Hahn GL. Effects of water flow restriction and environmental factors on performance of nursery-age pigs. J. Anim. Sci. 1984; Brumm MC & Mayrose VB. Nipple drinkers for finishing pigs. Nebraska Swine Report Publication EC91-219; Lincoln: University of Nebraska 1991; efficiently in liquid than in dry diets. Controlled fermentation of liquid feeds can exclude undesirable bacteria which present a risk to pig health and to the safety of pig meat for human consumption. The Flying Piggy Bank is an allusion to the phrase when pigs fly, a figure of speech used to humorously describe something that is thought to be impossible or will never happen.Take samples for all feed ingredients delivered; some co-products can show high variability in dry matter content and nutritional value. Samples should be analysed for dry matter content and if necessary for nutritional composition. These values should be used to adjust feed formulations and control the dry matter content of the final diet. Dry matter content is important to intake and growth performance and can affect pig health if too low. Shields Jr. RG, Mahan DC, and Graham PL. Changes in swine body composition from birth to 145 kg. J. Anim. Sci. 1983; 57:43-54.

Klopfenstein C, D’Allaire S, and Martineau G. What sows have to say about water intake. Proceedings Allen D. Leman Swine Conf., St. Paul: Feeding, petting, or taking a truffle from a pig now has a 0.1% chance of rewarding a pig ornament.Water:feed ratios for liquid feeding systems typically range from 2.5:1 [9] to 3.5:1 [10]. Recently, water: feed ratios ranging from 1.78:1 to 2.79:1 for pigs weighing from 40 to 250 pounds and fed dry feed ad libitum have been reported [11]. The lowest reported water:feed ratios were with wet/dry feeders and bowl drinkers whereas gate-mounted nipple drinkers had the highest ratios. With similar performance, this suggests that the major cause of differences in water:feed ratios between the various drinking devices is due to differences in water wastage, not differences in the amount consumed.