Heritage Cases

The farm Zoetfontein 4-HT on which the piggery will be established is 22km east of the town Amersfoort: • From the bridge on the Skulpspruit (Amersfoort’s eastern boundary) travel 900m in an eastern direction where one will connect with a T-junction, entering from the right; • Turn right here and travel for 14km where the road will fork. Keep left. • Travel 7.1km on this road and the first proposed site will be on the right next to the road. The locality plan is presented in Appendix 3. The project description and pig production for weGrow Farming Enterprises (Pty) Ltd. will be as follow: All designs are based on the latest SARPO and the European Union’s new pig regulations and legislation. All the buildings and equipment are designed with the above objectives in mind. The pigs will be free at all times except during lactations. This is to prevent the sows from injuring the piglets when they are just born. Once these piglets are strong enough to fend for themselves the farrowing crates will be opened to give the sow more space. The pigs welfare is placed at all time as priority number one. Each production centre has a special care centre for sick or injured animals. The hygiene in the units is paramount and will be administered to prevent any disease spread. All humans will be required to shower and be disinfected when entering and leaving the units. The effluent from the units is all organic and will be sold or used as organic fertiliser and organic liquid. The effluent will be stored under the houses in slurry pits and flushed every 14 days to prevent any ammoniac developing. No water will be required to flush the organic effluent from the buildings. The effluent will be piped to an effluent separation sections to prevent any contact with soil, or the nearby surroundings. This effluent separation section will be at the manure processing plant which contains a raw slurry basin/dam, clear water basin/dam, manure screw press and an area for the dry manure (slab). The organic solids will be separated from the liquid by means of a separation press. The following specifications are set out for the transporting of the slurry: SLURRY PIPING INFRASTRUCTURE FROM PIG UNITS TO MANURE PROCESSING PLANT: • All the piping will consist of a Class 6 PVC material, which is standard for the transportation of typically pig slurry. • The combined length of slurry piping from all the pig units will be in the order of 14 860m • The average diameter of these Clas 6 PVC pipes being used will be 315mm ø. • The pipes will be placed in the least sensitive area under the ground. It will be transported through gravitation, therefore the depth at the start of the pipes at the pig units will be at 600mm and by the time it reaches the manure processing plant it will be at a depth of about 1000mm. • The raw slurry dam/basin will be 200m2 in surface area with the clean water basin/dam at 100m2 in surface area. Please see map and layouts in appendix 4A. The organic solids will be separated from the liquid by means of a separation press. The dry matter will be stored for own use, or selling to the surrounding farms and the organic liquid will be stored in a lined dam for fertigation through the nearby centre pivots. The above organic fertiliser will be used on 1600 ha of maize and soya fields, to fertilise two crops a year. Total ha 3200. Water will be harvested from all the 45 000 m2 roofs for use in the piggery. This will amount to ± 30 000 m3 a year, which is about 40% of the requirement of the farm. The farm will also make use of solar energy for the heating of all the water for washing purposes. We have also made provision for a biogas plant in the future when it became viable. The production units (for site 1 & 2) are as follow: Components 1 Breeding and Farrowing Components 2 Weaner Components 3 Finishers The unit (for site 1 & 2) is designed considering the following norms. Sows • 2400 sows: 28/30 weaned piglets per sow a year. • 114 days pregnant: 28 days in lactation: 150 day sow cycle = 2.4 farrowing are per year. • Replacing 45/50% sows a year • AI with some natural services Gilt Development Breeding stock will be selected at 28 days from the farrowing house and housed in the gilt development nursery. Breeding will take place every 2 weeks with 14/15 sows to supply 70 gilt weaners. This selected stock will be kept in 2 sections for 42 days and then moved to the development section. Breeding stock will be kept in groups of 18 up to 180 days or first heat. These gilts can be served by a V-Boar, or and moved to a gilt pen for 1 to 2 weeks before introduced to the ESF training section for 5/6 weeks. Two week before Insemination 50 gilts will be moved to the AI section to get used to AI crate. Provision is made for 88 gilt crates. By introducing the gilts earlier to the AI crates will improve the conception rate. The gilts will only be kept in crates for insemination. The rest of the time the sow will be free to walk around The Gilt training section is a part of the breeding house. This section will hold 50/60 gilts in different stages from 180 days to 220 days. Gilts will be kept in pens on arrival from the development section and then moved to a training section to be introduced to the ESF stations. Gilts will be exposed to a boar. The gilts will be in contact with the detection boar. As they come on heat the gilts will be marked with a colour so that you can identify them. This will assist your stockman as gilts are sometimes difficult to recognise when they come on heat the first time. This system will then daily select all gilts that are on heat... From here they will be moved to the AI section to be served and introduced into the sow herd. We have made provision for the gilts to be moved to the AI section two week before insemination. Breeding/ AI Gilts will be kept in special Gilt AI crates and the sows in sow AI crates. Boar gates are fitted in front of every 7 sows. Sows will stay in AI section for 7 days and then moved to the early gestation for 35/40 days. In this section the sows can be kept in crates or as free sows by opening the gates. After 35/40 days, and the sows are certified pregnant, they will move to the gestation house. The sows will be accommodated in an open house with ESF station with 2.3 m2 space each. Each sow will be individually fed by the ESF station. The sows can eat at their own time when they are in need of feed. This is an advantage as the sow is protected during feeding and the feed can be altered for the individual sow. Farrowing The sows will be in the farrowing house for 26/28 days. The farrowing house will house 60 sows in 10 rooms on slats with anti-Crushing crates. These crates prevent the sows from crushing the piglets. In the design of the Plantkor sow stall, special attention was given to animal comfort with an optimum sanitation. This reduces the mortality to less than 6% below the norm. Weaners • Weaning on 28 days 7/8kg • 49 days in weaning house with a daily average to reaching +/- 30kg • 3 to 4 % mortality • Required temperature is 27 degrees for the first two weeks and reducing by 1 degree per week There are 8 rooms with 2800 pig spaces. Each room is divided in 72 pens of which 2 are divided to be used as special care pens. The Ventilation is our unique system that allows us to ventilate up to 70 cub meters of air per weaner in one hour without causing a draught. This is essential in South Africa’s hot summer months. Finishing Pigs We have made provision for 1400 pigs per building up to a max of 100 kg live weight. There are 12 buildings with 80 pens of 17 pigs per pen. One pen is divided into two special care pens per building. We have allowed 0.882 m2 per pig. We have made provision for 1 feed line. One silo will be used for the different feeds. Abattoir Dirty area: • Pigs are coming to slaughterhouse by trucks 2 times/day • 1 person work in stable and arr to there come 4-6 pigs into stunning area/ cyclus. • Pigs are group animal and will go very stressless when they go in small group 4-6 pigs. 1) Stunning by Freund E512, Head/heart stunning with optimal stunning. No bloodspot in ham or broken bones. All stunnings will be stored on USB stick so you can store it on office computer for later doc to customer/wet. After stunning bring pig on bleeding chain on one leg. Up on slide-rail by el-hoist arr. 2) Bleeding area: stick pig and let it bleed for app 4 min. Pigs has same volume of blood inside as we people have = 7 litre in bleeding area we can get out app 2.5-3 ltr. 3) Bring pigs down in schalding/dehairing machine by el-hoist arr or 1 sow/cyclus. Water in machine = 63 degrease operate app 3 min. = higher temperature = less operate time. You can go up to 69 degrease = operate time 2 min without scalding spot on hide. Pigs are coming out on table. Gamble on. Up to slide-rail and bring to flaming area. Flame pig so hide will be closed. 3) Whipping machine: 4 walze 4 KW/each with gummiwhipper make final treatment for hide. Pigs are brought though whipping machine by chain-conveyor. Clean area: 4) Open pig by a knife. 5) Breastbone cut by axe. 6) Casing set out, bring to casing room by a shute 7) Plucks set out. Bring to rack and cut every part and bring each part to boxes. Bring to chill-room in boxes. 8) Splitting saw by Freund Sb 49-08, Band-saw model. 9) Weight scale. 10) Chill-room, max 7 degrease inside before cutting. 11) Cutting room. First take tenderloin, Cut in front, middle and ham 12) Cut middle part in loin-belly. 13) Packing area: pack product in customer need packing by vac Webomatic Duomat 850 or in boxes. Bring packing to customer or in chilling-room or freezing room for later despatch. 14) Casing room: 15) Stomach: cut free from casing set and nettfatt. Collect 10 stomach and clean stomach in centrifuge. Water temperature in casing room must be app 40-42 degrease. 16) Pork rectum cut and empty, uterus cut free, bladders empty, pancreas free, cut fat free, cut spleen free. 17) Set green runners in special tools via one running wheel to walze machine where we press manure out collect 5 pcs G. Runner = 10 kg. 18) Chitterling release take chitterlingfatt out and bring chitterling on turn/water pipe. Machine will clean chitterlings inside and outside. All casing product must just after operation bring in wemag trolley 200 ltr with ice flakes to all product come under 3 degrees before packing after packing to chill-room. The proposed dam capacity expansion The existing dam on the farm Kleinfontein 3-HT portion 3 is envisioned to be enlarged by extending and making the dam wall higher by 1m. The surface area for this dam when at capacity will be 12.5 Ha. A surface area increase of about 6ha. The dam volume will be at 434 350m3.