Why choose an SW curly-tailed pig feeder?
In view of future welfare requirements, such as the BLK 1-star standard from 2030, and in order to ban on docking pig tails As of 2030 in the Netherlands, we are receiving many enquiries about pen widths. When it comes to rearing pigs with long tails, various studies show that sources that, alongside factors such as genetics, feed and climate, the accessibility of feeding and drinking areas in particular plays a very significant role. By ensuring that the likelihood of a pig experiencing hunger or thirst is kept to a minimum, you remove a major trigger for biting behaviour.
How do you ensure that the pig feels as little hunger as possible?
The number and width of the feeding bays in a pig trough are very important in this respect. Pigs want to be able to eat in peace without other pigs disturbing them or getting in their way. Verba drying troughs For piglets, standard 20 cm eating width and for meat pigs, standard 30 cm eating width. That's ample, but there are also questions from the market that the width of a feeding spot should be the shoulder width of a pig plus 10% extra. For a pig, this is 18 to 19 centimeters, where the standard VERBA SL drying troughs meet well. However, in meat pigs, with this theory you get to 35cm eating width. Also Better Quality mark 1 star mentioned in their concept requirements that by 2030 this internal size of 35cm has to be maintained. To do this, we had to make a custom model for the drying troughs for companies that want to get started.
What kind of feed trough for fattening pigs have we developed?
The tray we have developed, with 35cm-wide feeding compartments, is the SW feeding trough. Its nickname is ‘the curly-tailed feeder’. The feeding openings on this SW curly-tailed feeder are always wider than 35 centimetres, measured between the side panels.
We have these curly-tailed dry food bowls in 8 different designs:
SW1100KR (1×1 compartment): external width of 380 mm, SW2100KR (1×2 compartments): external width of 740 mm, SW3100KR (1×3 compartments): external width of 1095mm, SW4100KR (1×4 compartments): external width of 1455mm. The four double-sided variants are all the same width and are also 1,000 mm high.
Options for the SW curly-tailed bird feeder
As with all VERBA pigs drying troughs, SW feeding troughs are offered in the standard version. This is a result of more than 50 years of own production and experience with our extensive guarantee of 7 years on pig feeding troughs for pigs. During the last 10 years, the drying troughs have not changed in detail. We find drying troughs in general done the very best in this way, without being excessive in too thick materials, making the price unnecessary too high. Of course many people have their own opinion on their desired execution. We can almost always meet them; you can always ask for them!
Some of the options we offer for all our dry feed troughs for pigs – and therefore also for this SW curly-tailed pig feed trough – are: Spindle adjustment instead of standard slide adjustment, stainless steel slide plate instead of plastic slide plate, bolts and nuts instead of pop rivets, lids, mounting brackets and U-profiles for installation. Stainless steel spindles, stainless steel slides and bolts with nuts instead of pop rivets have disadvantages compared to our standard versions. We would be happy to explain these to you so that you can choose the right feeder.
