Five Room Building - Farrowing and Weanling Unit
With larger sow herds it is better to use all-in/all out housing for the farrowing and weanling unit. This plan has five farrowing rooms and five weanling rooms, sized for an active breeding herd of about 150 sows, with breedings timed to give six farrowings per week. The litters are weaned at approximately 4 weeks of age (on Thursday, to avoid weekend breedings) and are moved into a clean weaner room for a 5-week stay, by which time they should weigh 20 kg (44 lb). This free woodworking agricultural plans and woodworkers projects information is courtesy of the Canadian Plan Service web site.
