We've just doubled the size of the BPEX Practical
Pig App with a new range of video clips added for the wean-to-finish herd. There are more than 40 new videos demonstrating
practical tasks, from preparing weaner accommodation to feed and water checks,
ventilation, pig handling and selecting pigs for sale.
These are in addition to the 50 clips on breeding
herd management, which were produced for the app’s launch last year. It has
already been downloaded more than 1200 times by smartphone or tablet computer
users and a further 2600 people have viewed the video clips on the internet.
It’s exciting to see how many producers and stockmen
are trying our app and how useful they’re finding it as a training tool. You
can use it in situ out on the unit so supervisors can watch the video clips
with staff and discuss key points in the context of their particular unit – as
seen on the BBC Look East news programme recently!
If there
are pig management techniques producers would like to be added to the app,
please let the BPEX knowledge transfer team know at kt@bpex.ahdb.org.uk; it’s a dynamic video library that can be
built to suit the industry’s needs.
To
download the app, free, for smartphone or tablet computer, go to play.google.com or www.apple.com and search for BPEX Practical Pig App or,
to download the videos on a PC or laptop, go to practicalpig.bpex.org.uk
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