IMPROVING FATTENING MANAGEMENT IN PROFESSIONAL SWINE FARMS BY ESTABLISHING THE MOST EFFICIENT FEEDING PLAN

Abstract

Ensuring the conditions imposed by the integrated management of meat production in swine, involves the implementation of specific managerial measures to determine the expression at optimal parameters of the genetic capacity of commercial hybrids of swine exploited for meat production. This requires efficient management of nutrition, maintenance, thermal comfort and all microclimate factors, modern technologies in all systems that contribute to efficient production. The establishment of the most efficient feeding plan must take into account the production expected to take place, the financial possibilities of the farm, the production system but regardless of the system chosen on professional farms we consider that it should be taken into account that: young people introduced to fattening should be fed with balanced rations at discretion, because they make deposits of muscle mass to the detriment of fat deposits and fat pigs in the last period of normalized fattening, to achieve conversion rates of economic feed. The quantity and quality of feed administered to swine influences both the process of growing in youth and fat pigs and the quality of carcass and meat obtained from slaughtering animals, for these reasons we recommend a feed plan for meat production in four phases to obtain productive technical indicators and maximum economic.