When piglets are weaned from their mother hog, weaner piglets face a completely new environment. They’ve had the comfort of a heat lamp or electric pad to shield them from chilling factors. The sows milk and creep feed supplied in the farrowing crate may keep their energy levels up in ideal conditions. However, its essential to ensure warmth in their new surroundings to foster the genetic potential of piglets.
At this stage, maintaining proper warmth becomes crucial, and infrared heating (such as Reflect-O-Ray) proves effective in achieving optimal temperature levels. Trials have shown the benefits of this approach in maximizing piglet health and development.
Once piglets are separated from the farrowing crate and moved into larger pens in weaner rooms, they encounter new challenges. These challenges, such as unfamiliar piglets, absence of mothers and milk, and a different, potentially stressful environment, can lead to stress-related issues. These factors often cause piglets to lose their healthy appearance, including clear, bright eyes, pink erect ears, and well-developed hindquarters. Its not uncommon for them to drop to a lower score on the health scale instead of reaching their genetic potential.
In response to these stressors, piglets may develop longer hair to compensate for energy losses due to changes in diet and sometimes drafty environments. This can result in a rough appearance, watery eyes, runny noses, and drooping, pale ears. Furthermore, their loins may not be as prominent, and their hips less well formed.
These issues are prevalent in many swine facilities, both with forced-air heating and hot water heating systems, which often struggle to adequately heat colder pits and maintain a comfortable environment, especially during severe winter months. This is where the Reflect-O-Ray vacuum infrared heating system shines, effectively mitigating these stressors and boosting piglet production and weight gains. This technology ensures a better start for piglets by creating a more comfortable environment that aids in their development.
The Reflect-O-Ray heating system operates on an electromagnetic, subatomic level, producing highly absorbable infrared rays. Its unique design, with insulated front-end tubes and low mass spiral tubes, results in exceptionally even heating throughout weaner rooms. This allows room temperatures to be set slightly lower, still providing better comfort for the piglets. The deeply penetrating waves of infrared heating, which can be absorbed two to three inches into piglets flesh and bones, stimulate blood development and enhance circulation, opening up capillaries and improving their circulatory system.
Piglets that would otherwise suffer from cold pits and concrete walls under warm air or hot water heaters benefit significantly from this technology. Its no surprise that many successful hog producers rely on Reflect-O-Ray vacuum radiant heating systems to provide their piglets with a superb start. The advantages of infrared heating for piglets are evident, and this technology is a valuable tool for optimizing piglet health and growth.
For more information on the unique advantages and benefits of infrared heating for piglets, be sure to explore Reflect-O-Ray heating systems. These systems offer a remarkable way to heat piglets on a subatomic level using infrared rays, promoting improved circulation and digestion, which, in turn, leads to healthier and better developed piglets.
