Electronic Sow Feeding Brochure (PDF)

AP Schauer Compident Electronic Sow Feeding System - Embrace the Future
Combining over 25 years of expertise in electronic sow feeding technology with industry leading service and support. Let AP and Schauer partner with you to provide sow housing solutions that maximize animal welfare and performance.

Electronic sow feeding is the only alternative to gestation crates that provides true individual animal nutrition. The electronic identification of sows with RFID tags also opens the door to a host of other computer controlled solutions to the management of individual animals. This includes vaccination, heat detection, ultrasonic pregnancy exam and top dressing of nutritional supplements.

• Schauer is the world’s leading manufacturer of ESF systems
• Thousands of units currently in use around the world
• Expertise in system design and technical support
• New “TOPO” user friendly computer interface system
• Hand held units enable paperless barn management
• Feeds up to 80 sows per Compident ESF unit
• Straight ahead exit and retractable feed bowl maximizes animal throughput
• Robust and reliable feed station, refined by experience
  

Keys to the successful implementation of ESF include attention to detail regarding:

1 – Electronic sow feed station
The AP Schauer ESF stations is the result of over 25 years of design experience from the world’s leading manufacturer of ESF station.  Over 10,000 stations have been in service for more than 10 years each.  The station is both durable and reliable and offers a variety of unique design features that culminate in its ability to feed up to 80 sows per station. The station boasts a sturdy construction, a retractable feed bowl, straight passage through the feeder for the sow, air actuation of all moving parts, a new extremely user friendly computer interface, and handheld capabilities for the paperless management of your barn.

2 – Design of barn and animal flow
The AP Schauer team has experience with a variety of pen housing options from total slatted confinement barns, to partially slatted sow barns, to deep bedded barns to extensive pasture-based systems. Our ESF system is totally flexible in its implementation and readily applicable to retrofitting existing facilities.  Our expert team will provide concept designs for your ESF initiatives that include recommendations on pen size, shape and detail to help minimize the untoward effects of social hierarchy in group housing.  We will also meet with your management to help identify the best combination of animal flow and grouping strategies that promise maximum productivity and ease of use (eg static vs dynamic or pre- vs post-implantation crating).  There is no substitute for success as over 30,000 sows are now eating from ESF stations in AP Schauer designed pen gestation barns across the US.

3 – Training and support
Change is not always easy.  AP Schauer retains two of the most experienced ESF consultants in the country to assist with the management transition from crates to pen gestation and train managers and employees to get the most out of the AP Schauer electronic sow feeding system.  ESF can be much more than a way to feed sows.  It offers a variety of new management options that target vaccination, heat detection, reproductive efficiency, nutritional supplementation, and animal movement.