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Department of Agriculture and Fisheries PigBal 4 user manual Version 2.6 May 2018 This publication has been compiled by Alan Skerman, Sara Willis and Brendan Marquardt of Agri-Science Queensland, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Queensland), and Eugene McGahan, formerly of FSA Consulting. © State of Queensland, 2018 The Queensland Government supports and encourages the dissemination and exchange of its information. The copyright in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Under this licence you are free, without having to seek our permission, to use this publication in accordance with the licence terms. You must keep intact the copyright notice and attribute the State of Queensland as the source of the publication. Note: Some content in this publication may have different licence terms as indicated. For more information on this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 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Table of contents Table of contents .................................................................................................................. i Table of tables ..................................................................................................................... ii Table of figures ................................................................................................................... iii Overview ............................................................................................................................ 1 Menu ............................................................................................................................. 2 1. Cover ....................................................................................................................... 3 2. User licence ............................................................................................................. 4 3. Herd input ................................................................................................................ 8 4. Growth chart ...........................................................................................................12 5. Herd details ............................................................................................................13 6. Deep litter ...............................................................................................................15 7. Assumptions ...........................................................................................................16 8. Feed details ............................................................................................................17 9. Water ......................................................................................................................19 10. Effluent pre-treatment .............................................................................................21 11. Pond design............................................................................................................22 12. Diet ingredient data .................................................................................................26 13. Diet input ................................................................................................................27 14. DMDAMP ...............................................................................................................29 15. Output summary .....................................................................................................30 16. ERF calculations .....................................................................................................31 17. References .............................................................................................................32 Appendices ........................................................................................................................36 Appendix A – Key equations used in PigBal 4 ...................................................................37 Appendix B – Anaerobic pond activity ratios ......................................................................46 Appendix C – Details of standard diets A - D .....................................................................58 Glossary of terms ..............................................................................................................61 i Table of tables Table 1. Standard pig classes, live weights and ages specified in Table 4.1 of the NEGP (Tucker, et al., 2010). ........................................................................................... 8 Table 2. Average daily live weight gain (ADG) ratings (birth to 100 kg live weight). ............ 9 Table 3. Description, range and average / typical values of data to be entered in the ‘Herd input’ sheet. ........................................................................................................ 10 Table 4. Standard pig classes, live weights and SPU conversion factors published in Table 4.1 of the NEGP (Tucker et al., 2010). ...................................................... 14 Table 5. Typical solid and nutrient contents (% wet basis) of common deep litter bedding materials. ........................................................................................................... 15 Table 6. Fixed values used in PigBal 4 calculations. ........................................................ 16 Table 7. Feed conversion ratio (FCR) ratings (birth to 100 kg live weight). ...................... 17 Table 8. Default feed ingested values for breeder pigs and suckers................................. 18 Table 9. Typical total solids and volatile solids concentrations for a range of conventional shed cleaning systems. ...................................................................................... 20 Table 10. Typical percentages of solids and nutrients removed from raw piggery effluent by a range of pre-treatment systems which may be used in the Australian pork industry. ............................................................................................................. 21 Table 11. Climate descriptions, anaerobic pond activity ratio (k) values and example locations, based on Table 12.2 of the NEGP (Tucker et al., 2010). .................... 22 Table 12. Recommended anaerobic pond volatile solids loading rates for the various combinations of design concepts and climates. .................................................. 23 Table 13. Diet ingredient characteristics used by PigBal 4. ................................................ 26 Table 14. Ages and live weights for the pig classes used in formulating standard diets A to D. ....................................................................................................................... 28 Table 15. Anaerobic pond activity ratios (k) for locations throughout Australia. (Casey et al., 1996) .................................................................................................................. 46 Table 16. Percentages of ingredients (% as-fed) for standard sucker, weaner and porker diets A to D. ....................................................................................................... 58 Table 17. Percentages of ingredients (% as-fed) for standard grower and finisher diets A to D. ....................................................................................................................... 59 Table 18. Percentages of ingredients (% as-fed) for standard lactating sow, dry (gestating) sow and gilt diets A to D. (Boar diet is the same as for gestating sows). ........... 60 ii Table of figures Figure 1. ‘Growth chart’ example for a selected ADG value of 640 g. day-1 and entered age and live weight values that closely follow the predicted growth curve. ................ 12 Figure 2. An example of the schematic drawing of the primary anaerobic pond provided on the ‘Anaerobic pond design’ sheet of PigBal 4.................................................... 24 Figure 3. Growth curves predicted using Equation 1 for a range of typical ADG values .... 37 Figure 4. Plot of regression equation developed for determining SPU multipliers, based on average live weights for standard grower pig classes. ........................................ 38 Figure 5. Relationship between feed intake and live weight, developed from data provided by Willis (2013), based on AUSPIG modelling. ................................................... 39 Figure 6. Relationship between feed intake and age at a range of average daily gains, based on Equation 4. ......................................................................................... 40 Figure 7. Generalised plot of feed wastage versus feed conversion ratio for a range of ADG values. ....................................................................................................... 41 . iii Overview The original PigBal model was developed by Casey et al. (1996). In recent years, the industry identified a need to validate and upgrade the original version of the model. Consequently, Australian Pork Limited (APL) provided funding under Project No 2010/1011.334: Validation and