Feeding pigs
Pigs eat once a day at will and produce immediately afterward. With the architectural marvel of the Energy System, feeding can be streamlined.
Basic rules for feeding and keeping pigs:
- Each clone in the barnyard has its own feeding trough, from which only the pigs belonging to it are fed.
- The pigsty uses a common feeder for all animals in the account, provided the building has sufficient capacity.
- After the construction of the pigsty, the animals begin to feed in it.
- The feed can be loaded with a reserve for several days or months.
- Excess feed may be removed back into the clone’s inventory.
- Each age group has its own optimal feed ration.
- The optimal diet ensures maximum weight gain and production.
- Deviation from the optimal diet reduces the weight gain rate.
- With poor nutrition, production decreases.
- If nutrition is inadequate, the time required to prepare for mating and the gestation period increase.
- Sows and boars don’t die of hunger.
- In the complete absence of food, animals lose weight.
- Hungry animals do not produce.
- In the absence of food, the rate of gestation and preparation for mating is zero.
- With very little or no feed, animals lose one-third of their potential daily weight gain.
- The weight loss rule does not apply to pigs in the 351-380 day age group.
- If the animal’s weight drops to 0 kg, it dies.
Optimal diet for pigs
When fed the optimal diet, your pigs will achieve the maximum possible weight gain and produce the maximum amount of manure.
Suboptimal (incomplete) diet for pigs
If you do not have the opportunity to feed your pigs the optimal diet, you can change it at your discretion; however, it is worth bearing in mind that it will affect the pigs livelihood.