Piglet blower

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Piglet blower is the name of a device used in pig production that is used in farrowing houses to protect piglets from being crushed by the sow .

functionality

Newborn piglets usually stay with the mother until they weigh about 4–5 kg, which takes several weeks. The piglets, which are sensitive to the cold, usually lie under the sow. As soon as she stands up, there is a risk that some of the piglets will be crushed by the sow when she lies down. The devices, which are equipped with a radial fan , take advantage of the piglets' sensitivity to drafts and cold by automatically generating a strong flow of air when the sow gets up and thus driving the piglets out of the endangered area under the sow. The piglets then usually go to the warm and safe piglet nest , from where they later return to the mother when she lies down again.

Construction

The commercially available piglet blowers consist of an electrically operated , mobile fan, which is designed in a construction that is suitable for use in agriculture , i.e. in stalls, and is correspondingly robust and corrosion-resistant. According to the manufacturer's description, the device is controlled by a sensor in the form of a (modified) photocell , which reacts to the sow standing up and switches on the fan. When the sow lies down again, the fan is deactivated again by means of the sensor.

Any structural changes to the farrowing house are not required when using the mobile device.

Trivia

In November 2005, in the TV - quiz show What's new? of the ORF asked the advice team the question "Who or what is a 'pig blower'?"

Shortly thereafter, the term "piglet blower" was also one of the questions that were asked of the five comedians' advice group on the television program Genial Beseben - Die Comedy Arena, broadcast by Sat.1 , Comedy Central Germany and Puls 4 . The corresponding guessing question appeared in the episode of the quiz series broadcast on December 16, 2005 and could not be answered by the guessing team. Terms that evoke sexual associations were frequently used in the quiz show moderated by Hugo Egon Balder , including the term “piglet blower”.

In 2008, episode 402 of the series Der Klugscheißer in the radio youth wave Our thing of the SR dealt with the term "piglet blower".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c According to information from the trade and from manufacturers of commercially available "piglet blowers" devices.
  2. ↑ Who or what is a "piglet blower"? - Question in the quiz show What's new? of the ORF of November 11, 2005; Retrieved June 25, 2011.
  3. ^ Questions and answers from the programs from 2005 →  Friday, December 16, 2005 . On: www.beepworld.de; Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  4. ↑ Episode 402: Piglet blower  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the series Der Klugscheißer in der Hörfunk -Jugendwelle Unser Ding des SR , as an audio podcast in the ARD media library ; Duration: 1:20 minutes, accessed June 26, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ardmediathek.de