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Farrowing Heat Pads
These durable heating pads are made with fiberglass-reinforced plastic composite material. They are 100% water-tight, flame-retardant, and easy to clean. The small treads in the surface provide sure footing for piglets, and the evenly distributed heat keeps them away from the sow to reduce crush losses.
Farrowing Heat Pad
Farrowing Heating Pads
If you raise pigs, keeping your piglets healthy and safe is likely one of your biggest priorities. Without a robust and active litter, it can be challenging to ensure the health of your barn moving forward. Therefore, it’s important to care for your piglets in the best way possible by keeping them warm, and there’s no better way to do so than with a farrowing heating pad.
What Are Farrowing Heat Pads?
Unlike other types of piglet heating pads, farrowing heating pads are specially designed for use in two pens next to each other. This makes keeping your piglets sufficiently cozy and warm extremely easy if you have multiple pens.
Made with two heated sides roughly 30º F above air temperature and an unheated strip down the middle, you can easily slip your farrowing heat pads underneath the adjoining wall of your pens to keep multiple litters of piglets warm at once. Due to this added convenience factor, we especially recommend this type of heating pad for barns that support numerous litters of piglets at once.
Why Should Farmers Use Farrowing Heating Pads?
Farrowing heating pads aren’t just effective at keeping your piglets warm, especially during the cold winter months. These pads are also energy-efficient, helping you keep your heating costs down without sacrificing the health and safety of your piglets.
Farrowing heating pads are also durable and able to withstand a great deal of wear and tear as well as exposure to water without becoming damaged or overheating. Farrowing heat pads are easy to remove and clean, and the fiberglass-reinforced material keeps your animals, staff, and barn safe from fire danger.
With a tough tread surface, our farrowing heating pads pose little to no risk of slippage, preventing any injuries to your staff members when moving around your pigpens and caring for your animals. Plus, the even heating provided by our farrowing heat pads prevents your piglets from snuggling too close to your sow for warmth, which helps to prevent accidental injury to your piglets.
Benefits of Farrowing Heat Pads vs. Heat Lamps
Due to the materials used in heat lamps, they pose an inherent risk of fire danger from overheating as well as breakage, which could seriously injure your piglets, sows, and staff. Additionally, heating lamps tend to be less efficient when keeping your piglets at the right comfortable temperature.
Heating lamps are designed to heat the air around the piglets, while farrowing heating pads transfer heat directly from their surface to the piglets’ bodies. Between the two, it’s easy to tell which method is more effective. Plus, heating pads are water-resistant, so you won’t have to worry about potential electrical issues caused by moisture interacting with electric bulbs.
At Barn World, we understand that the health and safety of your piglets are some of your top priorities. That’s why we want to help you find the perfect farrowing heating pad to suit your needs and take great care of your babies.
Temperature Control
These pads are designed to maintain a surface temperature between 30-35 degrees above the surrounding air temperature, provided the pad surface remains uncovered. Importantly, this temperature regulation is independent of any internal or external control feature.
The heating element's size, type, density, and surface area collaborate to facilitate effective heat dissipation into the air, thereby limiting the surface temperature. For those seeking additional control, our Manual Rheostat (FE-00F911) allows for a fixed-level adjustment, reducing power flow and subsequently lowering heat production. Alternatively, our Thermostatic Control provides variable regulation based on changes in air temperature.
The choice between these controls depends on the specific supplemental heat requirements of the animal and the environmental conditions where the pad is utilized. Many of our customers find that no control is necessary, opting to unplug the pads when no supplemental heat is required. Another common practice, particularly in Southern U.S. states for exotic cold-blooded animals, involves using a household timer to automatically shut off power during warmer parts of the day.
Animal Heating Pads
If you own livestock, you know how important it is to keep each of your animals safe and healthy throughout the changing seasons. This is especially true for baby animals that need extra support to grow into healthy adults.
Though there are many ways to keep your animals of all ages warm and comfortable, one of the safest is by using animal heating pads. Barn World offers a variety of options for animal heating, and we always use the highest quality parts to ensure the health and well-being of your livestock while keeping costs low.
Animal Heating Pad Benefits
Animal heating pads can be used for a variety of livestock types at different ages, but their most common use is for piglets being weaned.
A heating pad for pigs that successfully keeps your piglets warm and comfortable can help reduce the stress of weaning, which supports good health and plenty of rest for your piglets. Reduced stress also means your piglets are less susceptible to disease and are more likely to grow at a healthy rate.
Is a Heat Pad for Pigs Better than a Heat Lamp?
Another option for keeping your animals warm and healthy is installing a heat lamp. While heat lamps can be effective, they don’t apply heat directly to your livestock in the same way, which makes them better tools for fully weaned animals as opposed to young ones who need the heat to grow properly.
In addition, heat lamps aren’t water-resistant like heating pads are, which can pose a safety risk to you and your livestock.
Nursery Heat Pad vs. Farrowing Heat Pad: What’s the Difference?
Nursery heat pads and farrowing heat pads can be used for most of the same purposes. Though nursery heat pads are designed specifically for warming baby animals, each product is made with durable plastic composite material reinforced with fiberglass.
In order to prevent slipping and injury for your livestock, every animal heating pad at Barn World is designed with a light tread texture that allows animals to keep their footing when moving around. In addition, no matter the size of the animal heating pad you need, each one provides steady, even heating throughout the entire surface to keep your animals equally warm and supported.
Barn World Heat Mats for Pigs
At Barn World, you can find a large variety of animal heating pad options to suit your needs. Nursery heating pads come in sizes of 3 feet by 2 feet, 3 feet by 3 feet, 3 feet by 4 feet, and 3 feet by 6 feet.
Farrowing heating pads have even more size options at 1 foot by 3, 4, or 5 feet; 1.5 feet by 2 feet; and 2 feet by 3, 4, or 5 feet. Additionally, a farrowing heat pad controller can be used to keep the temperature of your pad stable at all times.
Order Your Animal Heat Pad from Barn World Today
Upgrade your livestock space today with a farrowing heating pad or nursery heating pad from Barn World. Order now to support the health of your livestock!
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