SWINE
Bodmin Swine Genetics Inc.
Bodmin Swine Genetics was incorporated in 1956 by brothers Charles, Ross and George Procter and now is owned by the smith Family. Bodmin has been performance testing pigs since 1974 and has always recognized the importance of maintaining a high-health herd. With almost 50 years of swine genetics Bodmin continues to focus on improving performance and profitability. Smith Seven Star Farms and Bodmin Swine Genetics are partners in the swine enterprise.
The swine enterprise consists of a sow barn, nursery barn, finishing barns, as well as contract finishing barns.
The main Swine breeds that Bodmin Swine Genetics and Smith Seven Star Farms produce are Yorkshire, Landrace and Duroc.
Bodmin Swine Genetics is proud to supply:
Truck Washbay
Truck washbay was built in 2014 to protect the high health of our herds as well as the herds of our customers. It is a traffic controlled biosecure site. The wash bay uses 2 high pressure washer hot water systems with foaming pre-wash soap and foaming disinfectant. In floor heat along with air inlet exhaust fans create a drying area. All trucks and trailers are fully washed, disinfected and dried before every use.
New Technology
In the summer of 2014 one of our nursery barns was converted to a finisher barn. With this renovation a Nedap pig sorter/scale was installed into each of the eight rooms.
The rooms are set up so the pig must go through the scale to access the feed and water. This records its weight every visit and records how many times each pig goes through the scale in a day. The pigs are identified by RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag. These tags are put in as soon as the pig enters the barn. This allows us to track each individual pig from the time they enter the barn to the time they leave. All information collected is transmitted back to a main computer where reports of weight, growth, number of visits to feed can all be seen. It also keeps track of inventory and has a prediction of when and how many pigs will be ready for market.
There are 3 different sections that you can set up in the room so the pigs can be put on the right ration for their weight range. Once they are weighed the system will know what section to send the pigs to based on the sort criteria you enter and will put them through the proper exit.
The sort function is used when there are pigs ready for market. Instead of trying to find individual pigs, you enter your preferred weight range into the computer and the sorter will have those pigs sorted into a pen for you the next day. This makes shipping pigs more efficient with less man power needed and gets them into the right weight range.
The benefits to this system is:
Bodmin Swine Genetics was incorporated in 1956 by brothers Charles, Ross and George Procter and now is owned by the smith Family. Bodmin has been performance testing pigs since 1974 and has always recognized the importance of maintaining a high-health herd. With almost 50 years of swine genetics Bodmin continues to focus on improving performance and profitability. Smith Seven Star Farms and Bodmin Swine Genetics are partners in the swine enterprise.
The swine enterprise consists of a sow barn, nursery barn, finishing barns, as well as contract finishing barns.
The main Swine breeds that Bodmin Swine Genetics and Smith Seven Star Farms produce are Yorkshire, Landrace and Duroc.
Bodmin Swine Genetics is proud to supply:
- PRRS-free semen
- Maternal-line semen
- Terminal-line semen
- F1 gilts
- Purebred gilts
- Purebred boars
- High-health weaners
Truck Washbay
Truck washbay was built in 2014 to protect the high health of our herds as well as the herds of our customers. It is a traffic controlled biosecure site. The wash bay uses 2 high pressure washer hot water systems with foaming pre-wash soap and foaming disinfectant. In floor heat along with air inlet exhaust fans create a drying area. All trucks and trailers are fully washed, disinfected and dried before every use.
New Technology
In the summer of 2014 one of our nursery barns was converted to a finisher barn. With this renovation a Nedap pig sorter/scale was installed into each of the eight rooms.
The rooms are set up so the pig must go through the scale to access the feed and water. This records its weight every visit and records how many times each pig goes through the scale in a day. The pigs are identified by RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag. These tags are put in as soon as the pig enters the barn. This allows us to track each individual pig from the time they enter the barn to the time they leave. All information collected is transmitted back to a main computer where reports of weight, growth, number of visits to feed can all be seen. It also keeps track of inventory and has a prediction of when and how many pigs will be ready for market.
There are 3 different sections that you can set up in the room so the pigs can be put on the right ration for their weight range. Once they are weighed the system will know what section to send the pigs to based on the sort criteria you enter and will put them through the proper exit.
The sort function is used when there are pigs ready for market. Instead of trying to find individual pigs, you enter your preferred weight range into the computer and the sorter will have those pigs sorted into a pen for you the next day. This makes shipping pigs more efficient with less man power needed and gets them into the right weight range.
The benefits to this system is:
- Continuous access to individual pig weights and growth
- Feed based on weight
- Monitoring of activity/health
- Efficient way to automatically sort for selection of breeding stock or for market
Pure york gilt farrowed 25 live piglets at 33kg She has had over 100 born live pigs in 5 litters. |
One of several selected pig from litter of 25 born live litter.
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Pure York gilt farrowed 19 live F1 piglets |
Even the feed salesman love our genetics!
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