Curriculum · Module 13
Pigs: Rooting, Law and the Grid
The imported pastured-pig model runs into South African law before it runs into biology. This module settles the swill prohibition and its two independent legal bases, works the ASF suspicion protocol including the step everyone forgets, prices hardy genetics against the PORCUS grid, and confronts outdoor farrowing losses with commercial benchmarks rather than slogans.
- 60 Rooting as Tillage, and the Swill Law Settles when rooting is a tool rather than degradation, and the legal fact that invalidates the imported food-waste pig model in SA. State the two independent legal bases for the SA swill prohibition and what each one coversWrite a rooting protocol triggered by ground cover rather than by the calendarTake a defensible position on nose-ringing and be able to defend the ordering behind it 14 min
- 61 ASF, FMD and the Suspicion Protocol Settles what to do in the hour you suspect a controlled disease in pigs, including the notification step almost everyone forgets. Execute the full reporting sequence in the hour a controlled pig disease is suspectedState which pig diseases sit on which list, and which regulation each one is reported underIdentify the movement permits that apply to pigs, wild suids and their products 14 min
- 62 Kolbroek, the PORCUS Grid and Fat Quality Settles what a hardy indigenous pig costs you on the SA grid, and why the classes paid least make the best cured product. Predict where a hardy indigenous pig lands on the PORCUS grid, and show the arithmetic that puts it thereUse the correct lean-prediction formula for the measuring instrument actually in useBuild a product strategy around fat quality rather than against the grid 14 min
- 63 Outdoor Farrowing, Weaning Age and Who Actually Keeps Pigs Settles the real cost of outdoor farrowing and six-week weaning, and who the SA pig sector actually is. Benchmark an outdoor farrowing system against South African commercial sow-herd figuresCost the six-week weaning requirement in cycle days and in pigs weaned per sow per yearDescribe the communal and smallholder pig sector accurately, including what has never been measured 13 min