Focus on feed efficiency

摘要

Pig producers need to focus on animal efficiency rather than days to market, delegates at JSR's annual conference, Sutton Bonnington, Nottinghamshire, were told. In finishing pigs, days to market is the primary objective. However, when those pigs have"eaten their heads off" in the finishing period then the figure is misleading, the company's chairman Tim Rymer said. "The feed conversion ratio would be the best way to measure animal efficiency, but we recognise this is difficult to calculate. This is why producers need to be calculating the saleable meat produced for every tonne of feed (MTF). Our target at JSR is to produce four pigs, at 80kg dead, for every tonne of feed," he said.