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Lapel, In | I built a Cargill feeding floor in 1974 as per the Cargill plan. Had two hutches per pen,8'x16'. Each pen held 60 hogs with a half pen that was used as a hospital pen or overflow. My floor held 510 hogs. The hutches were about 6 feet tall in the front and about 5 feet in the rear with a rear door for sumer ventilation. Hutches were raised 6"above the outside pen and sloped to the front as were the outside pens.I used styrofoam under the hutch floors.The outside pens were 56 feet long and 16 feet wide. Each fenceline feeder served two pens. Built the whole unit , feeder & gates included for $21,000 and did all the work except pumping & pouring the concrete. Used it for 15 years when I sold the farm to a developer shortly after I quit using raising hogs. It was a good way to raise hogs, but was labor intensive. Always thought the hogs were a little healthier being raised outside.
Edited by msb 2/14/2010 17:31
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Cargill Open Front Hog Buildings
