BACKGROUND
Pigs have been essential to human’s life even before wild animals were domesticated. Ancestors of pigs comes from Asia and Europe 25 million years ago, however its domestication pigs began 6000 to 8000 BC. Pigs were highly produced in Asia especially China which is the highest pig producer even currently. Pigs arrived in South Africa in in 1600’s with the European settlers. South Africa’s indigenous breeds are the Windsnyer (Ramsay, 2002). Breeds which are also found and commercially produced in South Africa include Large White, South African Landrace and the duroc (Kem, 1993). Indigenous pigs are more adaptable to unfavorable environmental conditions and they have good scavenging skills (Gcumisa, 2013), this is the reason why they …show more content…
This kind of system requires low cost investment capital, low maintenance costs and the animals can be fed with anything around the farm or household left-overs. Backyard pig farming is characterized by poorly designed pens, poor health management of the animal (Munzhelele, et al., 2016). The main purpose of this type of farming is for own consumption but the farmer can at any time sell his livestock to people around the community, proper maintenance of the farming system can generate year round income for the farmer and his household. In general, the farm families rely on family …show more content…
Intensive pig systems allow the pigs' conditions to be controlled and monitored, ensuring minimum fatalities and maximizing productivity (Garnett, 2010). Buildings are well ventilated and their temperature also controlled depending on the environmental conditions. Most domestic pig are vulnerable to sunburn which causes heat stress, and since pigs lack sweat glands due to their skin which means that they cannot cool themselves. Pigs are not so much tolerance to high temperatures and heat stress can lead to demise (Bezuidenhout, 2015). Maintaining a better temperature within the pig-tolerance range that also maximizes growth (DAFF, 2012). Intensive piggeries allows pig farming to carry on even in many places with unfavorable climatic conditions for pigs to be grown (DAFF, 2012). In an intensive operation, pigs don’t need mud which is their natural of cooling their body. In Intensive system temperature is controlled through ventilation or by using a drip water
Pigs have been essential to human’s life even before wild animals were domesticated. Ancestors of pigs comes from Asia and Europe 25 million years ago, however its domestication pigs began 6000 to 8000 BC. Pigs were highly produced in Asia especially China which is the highest pig producer even currently. Pigs arrived in South Africa in in 1600’s with the European settlers. South Africa’s indigenous breeds are the Windsnyer (Ramsay, 2002). Breeds which are also found and commercially produced in South Africa include Large White, South African Landrace and the duroc (Kem, 1993). Indigenous pigs are more adaptable to unfavorable environmental conditions and they have good scavenging skills (Gcumisa, 2013), this is the reason why they …show more content…
This kind of system requires low cost investment capital, low maintenance costs and the animals can be fed with anything around the farm or household left-overs. Backyard pig farming is characterized by poorly designed pens, poor health management of the animal (Munzhelele, et al., 2016). The main purpose of this type of farming is for own consumption but the farmer can at any time sell his livestock to people around the community, proper maintenance of the farming system can generate year round income for the farmer and his household. In general, the farm families rely on family …show more content…
Intensive pig systems allow the pigs' conditions to be controlled and monitored, ensuring minimum fatalities and maximizing productivity (Garnett, 2010). Buildings are well ventilated and their temperature also controlled depending on the environmental conditions. Most domestic pig are vulnerable to sunburn which causes heat stress, and since pigs lack sweat glands due to their skin which means that they cannot cool themselves. Pigs are not so much tolerance to high temperatures and heat stress can lead to demise (Bezuidenhout, 2015). Maintaining a better temperature within the pig-tolerance range that also maximizes growth (DAFF, 2012). Intensive piggeries allows pig farming to carry on even in many places with unfavorable climatic conditions for pigs to be grown (DAFF, 2012). In an intensive operation, pigs don’t need mud which is their natural of cooling their body. In Intensive system temperature is controlled through ventilation or by using a drip water