Processing Piglets: The Most Crucial Stage In Their Early Life

Pigs go through many different stages in their lifetime: being bred, farrowed, processed, weaned, sent to a nursery, sent to a finisher, and finally being put on the market truck. Processing piglets is the most crucial stage in their early life. Without this process, many of them would die before they are even a month old. Processing the piglets occurs about one day after the piglets are born and sometimes even the same day of their birth. Processing consists of roughly eight steps: preparing the cart, catching the piglet, giving them shots, docking the tail, cutting the umbilical cord, tagging the piglet’s ear, completing the paperwork and spraying iodine on the cuts. These are the steps you will take if you are processing piglets on a genetic
Forgetting just one of the steps could result in losing pigs, or if the mistake is severe enough, losing your job. If you were to process piglets for six hours straight you would realize how tiring and laborious processing can become. Even though processing piglets is extremely tedious, it is a necessity for the pork industry. Without processing piglets, the amount of pigs making the voyage to the market would drop drastically because the death rate before wean day would skyrocket. The following steps are needed for the best accuracy in processing piglets: Preparation The first step in this long process is to make sure the processing cart is ready. You will need to make sure you have a syringe filled with a bottle of Exced for one of the two shots the piglet will receive. Exced is a medicine that will
Processing piglets will make the number of pigs boarding the market truck stay very high when it comes time for the pigs to go. Even though processing piglets is time consuming, it is worth the struggle for future gain. Preparing the cart, catching piglets, giving them shots, docking their tails, cutting the umbilical cords, tagging their ear, completing the paperwork and spraying the cuts with iodine are the steps required to process at a genetic farm. Without even one of these steps, the farm would not function correctly or pig lives would be lost. This is a process that will not only save the lives of pigs, but it will also collect a larger amount of money in the future benefiting the farm, the pork industry, and pork