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New opportunities in materials handling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

G. E. Baker
G. E. Baker
Affiliation:
Quality Equipment, Heath Road, Woolpit, Bury St Edmunds
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Abstract

Material inputs into pig production systems are considered as animals, food, water and bedding material. Consequential outputs are considered as animals and manure. The influence on these inputs and outputs of building design, of the design of equipment for handling, transporting and feeding animals and for the disposal of manure is discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 11: Pig Housing and the Environment , January 1987 , pp. 63 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Production 1987

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