Glenlea - livestock operations

Piggies at play

System

150 Sow farrow to finish operation

• Liquid slurry manure system
• Concrete slates

6-week Batch farrowing (Preset Schedule)

• 100% Artificial insemination
• 21 Day lactation
• Avg. weaning weight; 6-7 kg ƒ

3 Sow Groups (Group 1, Group 2 & Group 3)

• 40 – 48 sows per Group
• 450 – 550 piglets per Group ƒ

Group housed

Electronic Sow Feeders

• Breeding
• Gestation
• Farrowing

Conventional swine barn layout

Barn Design

48 Farrowing Pens ƒ

48 Nursery Pens ƒ

8 Grow Finish Pens ƒ

4 Gestation Pens

• 24 Sows per pen ƒ

2 Breeding Rooms

• 27 Breeding Crates in Each
• 1 Gestation Pen in Each
• 6 Side Pens in Each
• 1 Pen of 4 Crates with Exercise area in each

Cow in robotic milker

System

48 Head milking operation ƒ

Robotic milking

100% Artificial insemination

• Sexed semen on heifers
• Conventional semen on herd ƒ

Maximus environment monitoring system

Dairy barn layout

Barn design

Metabolism Room

• 12 stalls
• Individual cow data for manure, water, milk, urine, feed

Video / Wi-Fi cameras

Tie stall milking

• Milk can be sent to collection tanks or disposed

Climate control

Attached sample prep area with viewing window

Maternity Pen

• Straw pack
• Milked on straw pack
• Tie stall system
• Calves moved to nursery at birth ƒ

1 Milking robot

• Ability to have 2 robots
• 24/7/365 milking
• Cows get milked when they want
• Robot pellets available while in robot

Feed kitchen

• 3 commodity boxes & 1 stationary mixer
• 4 different forages
• 2 different grains
• Automatic feeding
• 10x/day
• Push up feed + Scan hourly

Broiler barn layout

Broiler Facility

Broiler barn (South wing)

• All in - all out system
• Can accommodate 1900 birds in a free run system
• 1280 birds house in 64 pens to accommodate different diets in research trial
• Uses wheat straw or wood shavings as litter

Barn Design

32 big pens or 64 small pens

Equipped with hanging feeders and bell drinkers

Newly renovated penning (phase 1 is done & phase 2 to install this July 2022)

Will also install new environment controller maximus system in summer 2022

Storage for feeds/diet in the north wing of Broiler barn

Space for tissue sampling and blood collection

Laying facility layout

Layer Facility

All in – All out system ƒ

4400 Layer capacity, Dekalb white ƒ

Two Different housing system

• Enriched system (~2200 Layers)
• Aviary system (~2200 Layer)
• All Equipped with Maximus environment controls

Equipped with environment controller

Barn Design ƒ

• Enriched System
  • 3 tiers
  • 108 enriched cages
  • Fully automated egg collection system
  • Chain system for feeding
  • Manure belt and conveyor for cleaning manure
• Aviary System
  • 2 rows of 4 sections
  • Can be separated into 8 smaller sections
  • Fully automated egg collection system
  • Chain system for feeding
  • Manure belt and conveyor for cleaning
  • Birds are free to explore space - can perch, dustbath and move from one tier to the other (freerun system)
• Three Metabolism rooms (use for research trial)
• 192 battery cages for individual hen housing
• Can fit up to 2 hens per cage
• Individual feeder and manure trays
• 8 Units of Start Grow PVC Cages (96 birds)