A pig farm operates to produce pork, managing animals through various life stages from farrowing to finishing. Facilities range from intensive indoor operations with climate control and slatted floors to outdoor pasture-based systems. Management focuses heavily on biosecurity, feed conversion ratios and waste handling.
Heard on the job
The new biosecurity protocols at the pig farm require everyone to shower in and out of the farrowing barns.
Also heard as
- hog farm
- swine operation