Swine floors should be designed, built, and maintained to avoid damage or suffering to the pigs.
The aim of the flooring is to produce a lasting, comfortable, and efficient surface.
Fuselage and urine should filter readily through the gaps to ensure cleanliness.
Easy to clean flooring boosts labor productivity and decreases illness transmission.
The sown is cool polypropylene in the creep area.
The cast iron gives excellent traction to the sow.
The plastic in the creep area is non-conductive and does not rob small pigs of body heat.
Combination pig flooring solutions are advantageous because sows prefer the cooler cast-iron surface and pigs prefer the warmer polypropylene.
They are also less cooling and fewer illnesses and polypropylene flooring.
This flooring mix gives both the sow and its pig thermal comfort.
Younger piglets need a cleaner and warmer floor than older pigs.
The reason is that younger pigs have a less developed immune function and need hotter temperatures.
Younger pigs are easier to chill and disease-prone.
Chilled baby piglets have lower illness resistance, are lethargic, and often do not suck adequately.
Theres no fat for little pigs to keep them warm.
The only heat a pig gains is via its intake.
The more the heat loss, the more feed it takes to compensate for the loss and make gains.
It is the only cast iron produced in the world via the open mold process.
There are no part lines since a one-piece mold is used in the process.
Independent German institutes confirm that teat injuries are 6% lower than the competitors.
This is why the largest firms in Europe employ Schonlau.
Schonlau cast iron laths have exceeded all other sow floors on the market.
