Innovative pig house comes with hiccups

29-01-2020 | |
Liquid feed production with three boilers, waiting to be connected. These will be used to process vegetable waste. Photo: Atelier 68
Liquid feed production with three boilers, waiting to be connected. These will be used to process vegetable waste. Photo: Atelier 68
The new finisher pig house belonging to Belgian producer Bart Vanackere has a range of innovations, including a lot of space for the animals, advanced manure separation and vegetable treatment from which the farm can prepare its own liquid feed rations. He is happy, but there’s still room for improvement. The finisher pig house on Bart and Mieke Vanackere’s farm is not the first or the only one to have large groups – yet here there’s a special sight: about 450 pigs together with enough


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Redacteur 1

Vincent
ter Beek

Redacteur 2

Kees van
Dooren

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Treena
Hein

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Rene Stevens Freelance correspondent