NAME: Gurivela farm

Type of farm: Swine ( Farrow to Finish) + Slaughter house

History: 2008 @ sow level of 180

Sole Proprietorship type of ownership with 34 farm personnel

Owner

Farm Tech(kuya
Book Keeper
Edward)

Farm workers
(34)

Farrowing area:
 Maximum of 8 farrowings before their sows to be culled
 Large white & Duroc
 With foot bath
*not regularly replaced & exposed into sunlight
 Artificially inseminated
*Sperms are from their own boars
 Feeds = Commercial
 Vaccines and medication program = refer to picture
 They intentionally reduced their feed ration 2 weeks gestating ( according to their tech, this is to
ensure that the piglets are not too big to avoid hurting/ injuring the sow
 They have their own ear notching system – 2 weeks before farrowing
*( L ear for months & R ear for litter size)
Nursery area:
 6 pens alloted
 With foot bath
*not regularly replaced & exposed into sunlight
 Tail cutting = day after gestation/ birth (1 inch)
 Castration ( changed their schedule from 14th day to 3rd day after gestation/birth)
 Vaccines and medication program = refer to picture
 Brooding system: limited use of light bulb. They invented their own heater that is being powered by
biogas ( less energy consumption)
 In cases where malnourished piglets/ below ave body weight, they put them on a separate pen and
they are being supplied by vits

Boar area:
 6 pens ( 1 boar/ pen) 5 pens are allotted for boar and the other 1 is for sperm collection area
 With foot bath
*not regularly
 Duroc
 Pietrain
 White Pietrain
 Pure Large White
 White Duroc

Growing area:
 20 pens (4 X 5)
 With foot bath
*not regularly replaced
 Feeds: Sunjin
 Adlib feeding

Finisher area:
 Market weight can vary depending on the buyer
 125/ kilo
 Diet: cooked feed (Corn + Chicken Head + soya + vitamins)
Other notes:
 Highest recorded mortality: 5-10 per month
 Common problem/ diseases: Respiratory diseases & Scouring
 Wounds: Pine tar + amoxicillin
 They have an efficient biogas, can supply the energy need of the whole farm AND EVEN THE NEAR
Households
 Good ventilation
 Some stray dogs & cats can enter the farm
*but according to the farm tech, they let cats roam their farm to control rats
 They have their own slaughter house
 They have a small vegetable farm that supplies the food of their farm workers
 Fly control: They add “sea fly trap” on in the feeds
 Their main farm is located at batangas, that is why there is only small capital allotted for this farm

SWOT ANALYSIS Strengths Weaknesses

Opportunities
Threats

STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
 biogas  poor biosecurity
 own small vegetable farm  low capital for farm development
 own breeder boars  poor quarantine system
 own slaughterhouse
 sufficient supply of farm workers
 low cost energy consumption
 well trained farm tech
 low cost for feeds since the major
ingredients in their “cooked feed” for
finisher are free ( the farm owner is
working at magnolia = chicken heads are
free)
 practices AI
THREATS

OPPORTUNITIES
 Outbreak of diseases due to weak
 near household in their area ( more biosecurity
customer)  Larger farms near the area