Pig Production in Bent County Colorado – Sow Farm for Sale
A 5000-Head Sow Farm for sale in Bent County offers great isolation for raising pigs. When you’re ready to increase the size of your pig production, you’ll be right at home in southeastern Colorado. Located half an hour west of Lamar Colorado, this 460-acre sow farm includes everything you’ll need. It was built in 1998 and stands equipped for immediate occupancy. You’ll have to drive 12 miles east and 14 miles west of the sow farm to find the closest pigs.
Developments 
All ready to roll, the sow operation includes a ranch-style home with four bedrooms and two baths. Water rights come from Fort Bent “Ditch Rights,” three wells, three 50,000-gallon storage tanks, and a separate well at the sow farm. And easy to use areas for gestation, farrowing, and manure will make it a transition to this Bent County real estate natural. You’ll see how it accommodates 5000 sows in a semi-orderly fashion.
Buildings
Several upgrades to this Bent County Colorado Sow Farm for sale aided the production process. Starting with new floors, cool cell infrastructure, feeders, and electrical, renovations continue with the replacement of some walls and ceilings. In addition, staff have access to four showers, an office, breakroom, and laundry.
A. Gestation Buildings. To accommodate gestation, the property features four barns measuring 58’ x 384’. These accommodate 1656 stalls and 2760 pen spaces or 4416 total spaces. The pens feature a station design with 15 per barn totaling 60 pens. The gestation barns have poured concrete floors, galvanized steel ceilings, and concrete troughs.
B. Farrowing Barns. To accommodate the farrowing aspect of the sow farm are four 48’ x 258’ barns. Each features one room with 768 crates measuring 5′ x 8′ 6”. It fits about 192 per room. Floors for sows are Tri-Bar and woven wire for piglets. Galvanized ceilings and SS sow-max feeder and hi-lo nipple watering.
C. Isolation area includes a 63’ x 148’ barn with capacity for 500 animals. 
Handling Manure
To accommodate and recycle manure, the operation includes a three-stage system. A lagoon with a digester cover serves as the first stage but not currently powered. Recycling and aeration take place in the second stage. Farther away, a large evaporative lagoon requiring no applied manure forms the third stage. In addition, other septic systems, LP tanks, and standby generators assist in the farm activities..
Colorado Real Estate Brokers – Farms and Ranches
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