Design GuideHow to Choose Slat Gap Width for Each Pig Stage
The gap in a slatted floor is a compromise between drainage and foot support. This is how to decide which way to lean in each room.
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Guides For Specifying Pig House Equipment
Material comparisons, installation guides, buying checklists and troubleshooting notes — written from the catalogue data and the practice behind the equipment we make.
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Design Guide
Installation GuideInstalling a Plastic Slat Floor Over a Manure Pit
A slat floor that is set out correctly takes a day. One that is not takes a week and never quite sits flat. Here is the order of work.
Comparison ArticleFRP Beams Compared With Concrete and Steel Slat Supports
Whatever carries the slat floor spends its life in the worst atmosphere in the building. Three materials are used for the job, and only one of them is indifferent to it.
Material GuidePVC Board or PP Panel for Pig Penning
Both materials are corrosion-free, washable and used in every modern pig house. They fail in different ways, which is what decides where each one belongs.
Buying GuidePlanning a Pen Layout Before You Order Penning
The information you send with an enquiry decides how useful the quotation is. This is the list that turns a price into a schedule.
Installation GuideAssembling PVC Panels With H U and L Profiles
A PVC panel wall is only as good as the profiles holding it. Here is how the pieces fit together and the order they go in.
Product GuideCutting Feed Waste in the Last Half Metre
Feed is the largest cost in a finishing house, and most of what is lost is lost between the line and the animal's mouth.
Installation GuideSetting Up Volumetric Dosing Cups for Sow Feeding
A dosing cup turns a ration plan into something a room actually delivers. Commissioning it properly takes an afternoon and pays for itself in condition scores.
Troubleshooting ArticleWhy Drinker Faults Are Usually Pressure Faults
Wet pens, dripping drinkers and animals at the end of a line that never get enough: three symptoms, usually one cause.
Process GuideEvening Out Temperature in a Farrowing Room
A heated room does not have one temperature. It has a warm ridge, a cold inlet wall and a pen at the far end that pays for both.
Design GuideDesigning a Pig House for Washdown and Biosecurity
Disinfectant only works on a surface it can reach. Most biosecurity failures are surface-design failures, decided when the equipment was specified.
ChecklistNursery Room Equipment Checklist Before Weaning Day
The nursery room is where growth is either kept or lost. This is what to check before the first batch walks in.
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About These Guides
Who writes these guides?
They are written from the specifications, catalogue data and installation practice behind the equipment JGM manufactures, so every figure quoted can be traced to a product code.
Can you apply a guide to my building?
Yes. Send room dimensions, the animal stage and your target capacity and our engineers will return a layout and an equipment list.
Where do the model codes and packing figures come from?
From the JGM product catalogue, which is available as a PDF download on this site.
Do you publish certification claims?
Only what can be evidenced. Tell us what your market requires and we confirm in writing what can be supplied.
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Send it to our engineers with your room details. We answer specification questions whether or not there is an order behind them.