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PureLine products | Animal welfare solutions
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The sustainable, animal-friendly and environmentally sound product line for your pig house

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Animal-friendly, low emission and well tested products for your pigs PureLine is Big Dutchman’s answer when you want to keep your pigs in an especially animal-friendly and environmentally sound way. Big Dutchman focuses on health, vitality and well-being of your animals and strives to create solutions that are ready for practical use. Our innovations therefore meet your requests for more animal welfare, advancing professional pig production with accrued knowledge. Big Dutchman has always been a major influence on the agricultural world with revolutionary solutions. Numerous awards prove...

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Concepts for the insemination and gestation area Keeping sows in groups during gestation not only increases their well-being but also improves their body condition. They are thus well-prepared for farrowing. Big Dutchman can offer a wide range of excellent options for group housing. Managing sows in groups provides the animals with plenty freedom of movement at any time, whether individual stalls are used or not. The most important factor is that the selected system fits your farm’s individual requirements. “My sows are doing very well! Lots of light, straw bedding and a good climate in the...

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The insemination area is the starting point for every production system. The housing needs plenty of light with as much natural daylight as possible. This is beneficial because: he entire muscoloskeletal system recovers t better and more quickly after farrowing; he sows can establish the required t hierarchy very early on; ows kept in groups go into heat more s easily; he sows can be stimulated more t intensively. EasyLock and BD sow stalls The sow stalls Easy Lock and BD offer the sows all benefits of animal-friendly group housing. Feed is supplied in the stalls. Every sow therefore has...

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Easy Lock stall for outdoor management BD stall with integrated insemination door Sow arena with connected insemination and gestation area In the sow arena, the animals have much room to satisfy their need for movement directly after weaning. This also has a positive effect on the start of the sows’ next heat. Any ranking fights occur before gestation so injuries during pregnancy are rare. Every sow has her own feeding space with partitions. The arena itself should be bright and airy with plenty daylight. Sufficient lighting can additionally be guaranteed with the FlexLED HO lamp. An...

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The service crates should be adjacent to the arena for easy heat checks and artificial insemination, keeping distances short and ensuring a good overview. Boars can help stimulate the sows in a boar aisle in front of the service crates to induce a heat that is as intensive as possible. During insemination, the sows can be restrained for a short period. The gestation area is located behind the boar pens, hospital pens and separation pens. The sows know one another after being kept in a group in the sow arena and in the service area, which reduces ranking fights. Boar pens and service crates...

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CallMatic3pro: computer-controlled sow feeding CallMatic3pro is an innovative feeding system for pregnant sows kept in groups. It ideally combines the advantages of animal-friendly housing and a feeding method specially adapted to the requirements of each individual sow. Individual, computer-controlled feeding means that the supplied feed and thus the nutrients are precisely adjusted to the sow’s condition. This method of feeding saves resources and is perfectly suited for new and renovated houses with partially slatted floors or with straw bedding. Advantages of CallMatic3pro ✔ available...

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BigFarmNet software extension for health monitoring Health monitoring of sows kept in groups is important but not always easy to accomplish for the farm manager. Big Dutchman offers a software solution that helps monitor the health status of each sow so symptoms of disease can be detected and treated early on. The system is based on the daily recording of each sow’s eating times and visit order over a longer period of time. These data are collected automatically by means of the ear tag and displayed at the PC in the form of graphs and lists. If there are marked changes in the behaviour of...

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Concepts for the farrowing area Ample room for piglets and sow during and after farrowing During farrowing and in the following lactation period, sow and piglets are granted much more room with the Big Dutchman PureLine solutions. Piglets need a protected space during this time, while the sow manager focuses on ease of use and a good overview. Big Dutchman can offer different concepts, from the variable-restraint pen and freemovement pen to free farrowing and group housing of pregnant sows. “Lots of freedom of movement for the sow and a creep for the piglets – that’s what I call animal...

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ActiWel: the variable-restraint pen with farrowing frame With ActiWel, Big Dutchman has developed a variable-restraint pen that provides ideal conditions and plenty of room for the sow and her piglets in their first weeks of life. The pen consists of a farrowing frame, a heated resting area for the piglets, the flooring and the pen partition. Arrangements either parallel to the aisle or straight, with the sow’s head against the wall, are possible. The low partitions of both options permit a good overview of the room and easy access to the pen. There is also sufficient space to feed the...

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Group housing of lactating sows Under the name Agilo, Big Dutchman offers three new group housing systems for lactating sows: gilo HL A gilo FB A In the service centre and gestation area, sows are already often kept in groups. But for lactating sows, group housing is not yet as common. This is mostly due to the fact that the requirements regarding animal management and monitoring of such concepts are higher. These requirements are compensated for by the advantages, however: group housing fits much better with the natural behaviour of sows and piglets. gilo RS A An important feature of all...

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