HOG 



"Pig rails or guardrails should be placed on the inside 

 of the pen, from 6 to 10 inches from the floor, according to 

 the size of the sow, and should stand out 6 or 8 inches to 

 prevent the sow from mashing the pigs against the wall. 



"It will be found convenient to have the alley gates 

 removable by lifting out. It is sometimes helpful, also, to 

 have part or all of the partition fences removable. All par- 

 titions should be 30 to 36 inches high. 



"Six by eight feet is generally found to be a very satis- 

 factory size for pens, but if feeding is to be done inside, the 

 pens will need to be longer in order to give room to feed 

 and water without getting the bed befouled. Very large 

 sows, such as are sometimes kept by breeders, may need 

 more room, but the producer of pork will not need a larger 

 pen. Small sows do not need this much room, and it might 

 be good economy to make half of the pens 5 feet wide. Five 

 by eight feet will accommodate a small sow very well. 



"Hog doors should be 22 to 23 inches wide and 30 to 31 

 inches high in the clear. In cold weather a piece of burlap 

 or ducking hung at the top of the hog door, with a stick _a 

 little shorter than the width of the door nailed across the 

 bottom to prevent the wind from blowing it back, will help 

 materially to keep the pigs warm. The pigs will soon learn 

 to lift the curtain when they want to go through. The 

 board doors in cots would not then need to be closed except 

 in very bad weather, or while the pigs are very small." 



THE NEBRASKA HOG HOUSE 



The hog house shown in Fig. 12 is taken from drawings 

 furnished by the Department of Agricultural Engineering, 

 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. It is claimed 

 that this house can be kept warm very easily because of the 

 low ceiling. The window arrangement allows an abundance 

 of light and provides for a maximum of sunlight on the floor. 



A storage space for bedding or other material may be 

 provided by placing a mow in the building. The mow floor 

 will prevent a rapid escape of heat from the pens below. 



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