German livestock equipment Big Dutchman has expanded its product line for sow management by developing a new volume dispenser for dry feeding which has a storage capacity of eight litres instead of six litres.

The new type of dispenser addresses the fact that the number of piglets per litter has been on the increase throughout the last years. This, in turn, means that lactating sows need to be fed higher quantities of feed which is considerably facilitated by the use of bigger feed hoppers.

The new volume dispenser matches the pipe diameters of the company's dry feeding system Dry Rapid. Yet adapters have been developed so that the new volume dispenser can also be used with other pipe diameters.