Ardie Basilio

• Daily monitoring of ventilation
• Daily monitoring and collection of mortality
• Daily monitoring and collection of culled hens
• Daily monitoring of feed consumption
• Daily monitoring of water consumption
• Daily monitoring of Egg Collection
• Cleaning of Poultry House
• Weekly weighing of flocks
• Performed minor repairs such as stitching of cut eggbelts.
• Performed rat proofing.
• Performed cleaning of Orchid Nets, Doghouse, Cistern Tanks and Cooling pads.
• Performed a weekly necropsy of good flock and weak flock.
• Performed cleaning of vacant room
• Performed disinfection of vacant room
• Performed culling/harvesting of culled flocks or old flocks
• Performed loading/receiving of RTL-ready to lay flocks from RTL Farms
• Internal farm driver- reliever if the assigned driver on leave/restday

· Cleaning and disinfection of building

Pressure washes the whole building.

Disinfection of all equipment and surroundings.

It is important to reduce the number of organisms and risks of disease.

It also creates pleasant working conditions for employees.

· Prepares and checks the building (DTF) due to farrow sows.

The building should have proper ventilation.

Pens, feeders, water supply, transported at a minimum and comfortable number to prevent unnecessary stress and injury.

· Monitor health status and condition of the sow.

Ensure that condition and feed intake are monitored.

At partition time, sows do not feed 24 hours before their expected date, however we need to ensure that the sow are given sufficient water.

Check dates of due to farrow sows.

· Perform farrowing process.

Consult the sow and litter recording system to see it there have been any previous problems at farrowing.

Monitor more closely if there is a record of high stillbirth rates and if it is the first parity. If a serious problem arises, consult a farm veterinarian immediately.

Prepares brooding area, beddings, and jute sacks to cover the floor around the sow farrow, then proceed to assist as sow farrow, clean and wipe newborn piglet.

Removes membrane covering the nostrils and the mouth to avoid suffocation.

Applies iodine to the umbilical cord and massage to stimulate breathing, then guide piglet to the teats of the sow to stimulate sucking of colostrum.

Weigh piglets individually and record.

· Record farrowed sows.

Records sow litters (total born, total reared, still birth, mummified, and condemned at birth, parity, and boar name/number).

· Perform cross fostering.

Foster piglet so they can gain access to a teat, suck, and hence survive.

· Perform procedure for new piglets.

Ear notching ear punching-record age of the piglet

Tooth clipping to prevent damage to the skin and teats of the sow and avoid harming other piglets.

Tail docking to prevent tail biting that causes infection. The tail must be docked at least 1 inch length.

Performed castration on 7 to 10 days old piglets.

· Feeding of sow

· Teaching piglets creep feeding

· Perform medication and vaccination.

Medicate piglets and sows.

Vaccination is performed upon advice of farm veterinarian.

· Perform weaning procedure.

The weaning age is 28 to 30 days.

Removes the sow and transfers it back to the mating house at breeding section.

Weight piglets individually to record weaning weight.

Transport to Nursery Section (uses pig boards when moving or transferring piglet).

· Monitor pig mortality.

Roving and collecting twice a day.

· Monitors and maintains proper ventilation and temperature of the building using automated control system.

· Maintains biosecurity.

· Maintain cleanliness of entire farrowing

• Feeding
• Medication
• Vaccination
• Sizing and isolate all behind and small piglets
• Making of Daily Report such as feed consumption, mortality, population, medication and ventilation.
• Collection of mortality twice a day
• Receiving of newly weaned piglets from Farrowing Section
• Weighing and loading out of breeder pigs from Nursery to Gilt Development Section.
• Weighing and loading out of slaughter pigs from Nursery to Marketing Section.
• Cleaning of vacant room.
• Disinfection and Fumigation of Vacant room.