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Gestal 3G, the innovative feeding system for gestating sows in groups, offers many advantages compared to other existing systems
(ESF, free access stalls and short stalls) not only in terms of sow management, but in animal well-being as well as system cost. This
system allows inexpensive individual feeding for sows in groups (25% less), diminishes competition for access to feed and facilitates
training compared to ESF systems.
FEATURES
ADVANTAGE EQUIPMENT
ADVANTAGE MANAGEMENT
• Autonomous feeder with
wireless communication
• Easy to use
• Ratio of 15 sows/gilts per station
• Adaptable to any size of farm (10
sows and more)
• No stress applied to sows to
leave the station
• Installation in « multi-stations »
• Precise meal distribution
• «Anti-sleeping » bar
• Gestation software blended with
the lactation software
• Remote control and monitoring
(internet)
• No pneumatics
• Minimal maintenance
• Fast installation
• Strong station
• Technical support, live
monitoring by internet
• Reduced costs (Farm modification
25% cheaper than other systems)
• Feed distributed = truly
consumed
• Sows enter the database at their
first visit in the station
• Feeding curve related to the
farrowing system
• Self-training of sows
Jyga Technologies
www.jygatech.com | 1-866-333-7853| [email protected]
During several months, Jyga Technologies performed tests with various
prototypes of a feeding station for gestating sows in group. These tests
have been done in collaboration with the CDPQ (Sébastien Turcotte)
and Agriculture Canada (Jennifer Brown)
The complete report is available on the CDPQ’s website:
http://www.cdpq.ca/getattachment/Recherche-et-developpement/Projets-de-recherche/Projet204/Rapport-JYGA-Final.pdf.aspx
« …the Gestal system is simpler and cheaper. »
« …sows have easier access to the feeders ... Less
social competition between sows for access to feed, …
less ''dropping out'' and less aggressive
interactions… »
« The small number of sows per station allows for
more than one station within the pen …beneficial in
the case where a feeding station breaks down: other
stations will be available to feed the sow group. »
« …sows entered the feed stations and fed calmly,
with minimal displacements or aggressive
interactions at the feeders entrance. »
« … the decision to feed a sow or not will be
taken by the station itself since it can keep the
feeding data of the entire herd in its memory.»
« …the farmer will have only to enter the body
condition and the rest will be done
automatically. The farmer may also customize
the feeding curves… »
« …easy to install in existing gestation sections with
stalls… it uses technology similar to WI-FI which
dramatically facilitates its installation since there are
no wires to set up. »
« The probability of having a free station is
therefore much higher with the Gestal system
than with the ESF one. »
« This system may be adapted to any farm size thanks
to its small sow/station ratio (15 to 20 sows/feeding
station). »
« … sows used during the first tryouts
successfully learned to access the feeder without
help from farm staff. »
Jyga Technologies
www.jygatech.com | 1-866-333-7853| [email protected]