Farming Simulator 22: Pigs - breeding, tips FS 22 guide, tips

The following page describes how to breed pigs in Farming Simulator 22. You will learn how to feed pigs, how pigsties differ from each other, how to get slurry and manure and how much you can earn on breeding.

You make money on pigs by selling adult animals for meat. They grow up quickly and have a high rate of reproduction. The growth rate is affected by the feed or single type of food you provide them. In addition, pigs produce significant amounts of natural manure - slurry (liquid) and manure (solid form - requires straw to be delivered to the pigsty). This way you can save a lot on fertilizers.

• Types of farm houses
• Types of pigs
• Feeding
• Reproduction
• Slurry and manure
• Profitability

Types of farm houses

1. Pasture: 30 individuals, feeding capacity - 9,500l (it also requires water supply), water capacity: 3,000l, price: 28,000 EUR
2. Pigsty: 108 individuals, food capacity - 34,000l, straw - 15,000l, price: 109,000 EUR
3. Large pigsty: 270 individuals, food capacity - 85,000l, straw - 45,000l, price: 164,000 EUR

It is worth investing in a pigsty right away, because the profitability of pig breeding is strongly dependent on the number of individuals. In addition, pigs breed very quickly. You can feed them almost anything, so even if you don't pay much attention to breeding, the investment will quickly return itself. In addition, the pasture does not allow to generate manure and slurry.

Types of pigs

There are 3 pig species - they do not differ in anything except appearance. However, there is a significant difference in the age of the pigs - you can buy young, cheaper individuals (200 EUR) or adults (416 EUR) at the age of 6 months. If you decide to purchase adults, they will immediately reproduce under optimal conditions.

Feeding

If you want to ensure maximum productivity of pigs (reproduction/fertiliser production/value - dependents on Health), you must provide them with the best possible food or a mix of different ones.

Pigs feed on the following plants, divided into four groups - each having a different efficiency:

1. Base food (maize/sorghum) - 50% efficiency,
2. Grains (wheat/barley) - 25% efficiency,
3. Proteins (soybeans/canola/sunflower) - 20% efficiency,
4. Root crops (potatoes/beets) - 5% efficiency.

The reality is a little different, though. Pigs require basic food and at least one of the other categories of plants. So you have to grow corn or sorghum (maize yields slightly higher per hectare) and for example - barley (due to the large harvest per hectare).

If you want maximum productivity without having many crops, you can get Pig food from the store (available on pallets and in bags) [not to be confused with Mineral feed]. It provides 100% of the production from animals, but it is not cheap, meaning it will affect your profit from pigs. Pig feed can be bought in large bags of 1,000l, which, unfortunately, is not very convenient because of the long loading time on the trailer. You can pour it in a trailer for easier transportation.

You feed by dropping food at the silo.

Straw does not affect the health of animals and is only an optional ingredient to produce manure. You have to drop it in the feeding area.

Reproduction

Pigs reach maturity at the age of 6 months. With full health and satisfying all needs (full-value feed, straw, optionally water), subsequent animals will be born after the period 4 months (increase in the reproduction rate by 25%/month). You can easily calculate how long you will have to wait if you feed the animals with lower efficiency food. One animal produces one offspring.

Slurry and manure

Pigs produce slurry and, optionally, manure. For the latter, you need to build a special prism near (approx. 30m from the building) the pigsty. The pastures will produce neither manure nor slurry. In addition, manure requires straw - without it, animals develop and multiply normally, but you will not get valuable fertilizer.

In FS22, you do not have to load the manure manually - just stand next to the marker and load any trailer or spreader with it.

Fertilizers - even if you do not use them, you can sell them in a biogas plant, so it is worth to provide straw to pigs and collect a pile of manure. Prices are shown in the menu.

You pour digestate by using a vertical pipe coming out of the underground tank.

Profitability

Since you get money mainly from animals, it is worth using a trailer to transport them to a selling point, so as not to pay additional costs. However, if you raise pigs mainly for fertiliser, you won't have to transport large quantities of pigs on your own that often.

Rounded values. Production and consumption calculated on a monthly basis for 10 animals.

Maximum value of animals: 1,200 EUR (at the age of 24 months).