Swine Lagoon Design Volume

 

        | LAGOON DESIGN VOLUME (FIRST STAGE) in CU FT/ANIMAL UNIT |   (Final Stage) (Single Stage)
        | AT VOLATILE SOLIDS LOADING RATES PER 1000 CU FT OF VOLUME | (Middle Stage) Annual Dewater Annual Dewater
  Average   For Raw Manure |               | Three Months Manure For 3.5lb VS-
  Liveweight CuFt Raw Volatile Solids | 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5 6 | Storage Storage Volume Design+Storage
ANIMAL UNIT(Swine) pounds/unit Manure/yr lb/day per unit | lb VS/day lb VS/day lb VS/day lb VS/day lb VS/day lb VS/day lb VS/day | CuFt/Animal CuFt/Animal CuFt/Animal
Farrow (per S&L cap.) 400 187 2.40 | 800 686 600 533 480 436 400 | 70 281 966
Nursery (per pig cap.) 35 17 0.18 | 60 51 45 40 36 33 30 | 7 29 81
Grow-Fin (per pig cap.) 165 71 0.80 | 267 229 200 178 160 145 133 | 32 127 356
Breed-Gest (per sow cap.) 375 67 0.70 | 233 200 175 156 140 127 117 | 30 120 320
Far-Finish(per prod. sow) 1526 589 6.64 | 2214 1897 1660 1476 1328 1207 1107 | 259 1034 2932
Feeder-pig(per prod. sow) 536 164 1.84 | 614 526 460 409 368 335 307 | 68 272 798
Far-Finish(per pig sold/yr) 85 33 0.37 | 123 105 92 82 74 67 61 | 14 57 163

Last Updated on 6/24/97
By Don Jones