Pig Systems

Pig is one source of meat and income are important for a number of regions in Indonesia, and is widely used for traditional ceremonial purposes. Often the pigs allowed to live freely. This is a cheap and low maintenance. However, in this way will be susceptible to swine diseases because of poor food, disease transmission is faster, more piglets that died, and the risk of your pig is stolen is also greater. In addition, pigs can cause a lot of damage to crops and young trees if the pig until it reaches the area of this garden.
A pigsty following simple yard should be made to further improve productivity, in addition to protect your plants. You can also easily collect and use of pig manure, and swine as a labor advantage. The fact that pigs eat human feces could happen, but this is very unhealthy. Pigs can become ill from diseases that originated from human feces and the disease can be transmitted to humans who eat the pork.
pig needs: water, food, shelter, health, land for digging, fence
pork products: meat, manure, money, labor (controlling weeds and cleaning personnel land), ceremonial purposes, the skin.
Pigsty
can start with a simple system and then secaara slowly developing that system from time to time. pigs need food and water every day so that would be easier if the cage is made close to home. Pigsty used for pigs in the evening.Cage size 3 mx 3 m is a good size. Pigsty should provide shade and protection from rain and strong winds. If a pig pen does not have walls, needed a strong fence instead. preferably from the cement floor with little inclination for easy cleaning. This floor can be a layer of grass that must be changed every week. Then, use the grass and pig manure as compost and mulch.
Cage floor can also be made of wood or bamboo. The floor must be above the soil surface and has a slit so it can easily be cleaned and not rotten or decayed. Some crops are planted next to the pigsty would improve the environment and health of pigs. If the pigs live happily, they will be healthier, grow faster and bigger. Plant the fruit trees and trees that can be used as pig feed pig around the yard. These plants will also benefit from pig manure. During the middle of the day, pigs can be left to look for food outside the cage or can also be anchored / tied to something. If they are allowed to roam, make sure that the fenced vegetable garden. If the pig was tied up with rope, pigs use it to clean and memupuki land that you will use to plant crops.
Feed and Water
Pig must get enough water and feed every day. Mixed leaves, kacangkacangan,and tubers are cooked at once would be good for pig feed. Sweet potato, cassava, potato, Gliricidia, and Moringa is a good material to use. Rice flour and corn flour can also be used as an excellent feed for pigs. Food scraps from the kitchen can be added as pig food.
Health
If you keep the hog pen clean and provide adequate feed and water the pigs will be healthy and almost all diseases can be prevented. Add mulberry leaves or papaya seeds in pig feed on a regular basis. Mulberry leaves and papaya seeds will help overcome the problem of worms, but if given regularly once a month, will serve as a deterrent. Add about 1-2 handheld papaya seeds and / or 1-2 handheld mulberry leaves on feed that is being cooked, give it to pigs. Isolate sick pigs until the pork is cured to stop the spread of disease.
During pregnancy, birth and first few weeks after birth, make sure the parent given more feed. This will help to produce more healthy piglets and give more milk for them. Make sure the parent also get a comfortable area protected from the dogs.
Yard for the Pig
If made the yard, make sure there is a strong fence around it to keep the pigs remain in the area of the yard. The area outside the fence can be planted with live fences which will eventually be a fence and the leaves can be used as pig feed. Live fences can also provide shade needed by pigs.
The yard can also be divided into 3-4 parts. Then the pigs can be moved from one section to another. Vegetables can be grown in parts that are not pigs.
Pigs For Tractor
Pigs can be used as a tractor on your land!There are several ways to do it, among others:- Tie pork with a tethered rope and let them clean up weeds and memupuki land around the area, which later can be planted with vegetables or trees.- Make a fence around your vegetable land and enter into it to clean up pig weed and memupuki land before planting.- Make a cage that can dipindahpindahkan. The size of the cage along the 4 steps wide and 2 step big enough to accommodate 3 pigs. Cage did not have floors and palm leaves can be used as a simple shade. The pigs that are in it will clean up weeds and provide fertilizers to the soil. When the land was already clean, move it to another cage.