Cutting costs with multi-size penning
By Norman Dunn - Better Pork Magazine - Large hog production units in Denmark, as elsewhere, aim for as uniform a batch of pigs as possible per feeding pen. But costs per hog feeding place spiral for smaller enterprises trying to follow this system. With limited numbers of young feeders coming into the finishing barn each month, trying to maintain uniform batches means forming smaller pens with much higher costs per kilogram of pork produced.