Pig Specialists Choose Shufflebottom
The specialist pig equipment company G E Baker (UK)
Ltd, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, has chosen Shufflebottom
steel-framed weaner and farrowing buildings for a project
undertaken in East Anglia.
G E Baker provides pig equipment ranging from drinking and feed
handling items to refurbishments and complete new turnkey
buildings.
The weaner building, for young pigs from the time they are
weaned from their mothers until they reach about 18kg in weight, is
60.2m long and 27.5m wide, and has ten bays each of 6.020m. The
height to the eaves is 5.2m. The building, which has galvanised
steelwork and incorporates the Shufflebottom Eaves Beam Gutter
System, has Kingspan 100mm composite insulated roof panels, coated
with 0.5mm plastic. Other features include a galvanised
electrically operated roller shutter door, 4.5m wide and 3.5m high,
and five personnel doors.
The farrowing building, where sows give birth to piglets, is
30.2m long and 24.6m wide, in five 20ft bays. The steelwork is
galvanised, and the structure includes the Shufflebottom Eaves Beam
Gutter System. The sides are clad, to 4.2m below eaves level, with
Kingspan 100mm composite cladding, covered with 0.5mm vertical
plastic-coasted box profile. There are two doors, each 1.0m wide
and 2.1m high.
Both buildings have drip flashing below the side cladding, and
Ultrazed side rails.