The new swine research center is located about 12 miles west of Lexington.  

• Three site production (Headquarters-Gestation-Farrowing Unit, Nursery Unit, Grow-Finish Unit)

• Size: 120 sows (24 farrowings every 4-5 weeks), 250 litters/year, 3-week weaning

• Breeding: Rotational crossbred; Yorkshire-Landrace F_1, x terminal male

• Finish out about 1/2 of pigs

BUILDINGS

Swine Headquarters, Breeding - Gestation - Farrowing Buildings

Headquarters Building

• Office.
• General purpose room.
• Employee break room.
• Field labs, wet and dry.
• Dressing rooms, lockers, showers.
• Chemical storage.

Breeding-Gestation Building

• Pens for transition gilts.
• Boars for estrus stimulation.
• Boars for heat checking.
• Breeding area.
• Active gilt pool.
• Weaned sows in individual stalls.
• Breeding pens.
• Boars for heat checking.
• Gestation area.
• Bred gilts and sows in individual stalls.
• Feed storage and scales.

Farrowing Building

• Sow wash-up area.
• 3 farrowing rooms with 12 crates/room.
• Feed storage and scales.

Nursery Building

• 4 nursery rooms with 32 pens (4 x 4 ft)/room.
• Feed storage and portable scales.

Grow-Finish Building

• 3 conventional rooms with 24 pens (6 x 10 ft)/room.
• 1 room with 72 individual pens (2 x 8 ft)/room for finishing pig studies.
• 1 rooms with 48 individual pens (2 x 5 ft)/room for growing pig studies.
• Feed storage and scales.

Boar Stud

• Temperature controlled (air conditioned) building.
• Pens for herd boars.
• Semen collection and processing area.

General Purpose Building

• Shop.
• Equipment storage and shelter.
• Equipment clean-up area.
• Walk-in cooler for dead animals, afterbirth disposal.

Waste Handling

• Above ground storage of manure
• Pumped underground to field storage.
• Injected into cropland.