With pork consumption expected to rise over the next several years, it’s important to teach today’s agriculture students pig husbandry skills. Realityworks’ learning aids can help them learn about swine ear notching, breed identification, feeding and management, and more. Read on to see a variety of innovative simulators, models, and kits that can help teach students how to work with swine.
1. Cow and Pig Ear Simulation
Ear notching is an important piece of pig husbandry that makes it easy to identify the pig and its litter. The Cow and Pig Ear Simulation can help you address proper ear care and identification while providing safe, consistent ear tagging and notching practice in your classroom. All ears are removable and replaceable, featuring a realistic look and feel.
2. Swine Litter Processing Simulators
Give your students hands-on practice processing piglets with our Swine Litter Processing Simulators. Use each of the four piglet simulators to practice pig husbandry skills. These techniques include teeth clipping, castration, tail docking, and ear notching. Four sets of processing tools and supplies are included.
3. Swine Kit
Use this Swine Kit to offer engaging, hands-on lessons about introductory pig husbandry topics, such as breed identification, reproduction, and feeding and management. As students interact with the included learning aids, posters, and curriculum, they’ll develop fundamental knowledge specific to pigs. This easy-to-implement program also includes career exploration resources.
4. Swine Breeder™ artificial insemination simulator
The Swine Breeder is a life-size female swine simulator that helps teach the pig husbandry skills of artificial insemination and birthing techniques. This sturdy, portable simulator allows students to sit on it while checking for standing heat and replicate artificial insemination techniques. Additionally, use it to simulate farrowing piglets and train on normal and abnormal delivery positions.
5. Pig Model
Understanding swine anatomy is foundational to pig husbandry. The Pig Model can help students understand swine anatomy. One-third the size of an actual pig, the exterior depicts a detailed muscular system. Separating at the midline, it reveals 16 removable organs and body parts, including the digestive and reproductive systems.
6. Dissected Fetal Pig
This detailed Dissected Fetal Pig model brings hands-on experience to the classroom. It features nine removable organs as well as a curriculum. The curriculum discusses pig anatomy, major cutting patterns for dissection, and parts and organs of a fetal pig. The complete curriculum takes about an hour to teach, but you can select specific activities to pull out and use in your own lesson plan as well.
7. Pig Stomach Model
The Pig Stomach Model is a detailed, realistic model of the swine digestive system. It features two removable parts, each of which depicts the internal and external structures of a pig’s stomach in full-color detail. The model also comes with curriculum, student activities, and presentation slides all about the digestive system.
8. Pig Uterus Model
The Pig Uterus Model is a life-size anatomical model of a pig’s reproductive system on a display stand. It includes curriculum and presentation slides as well as student activities all about the reproductive systems. The complete curriculum takes about one hour to teach, but you can select specific activities to pull out and use in your current lesson plan as well.
9. Butcher Pork Cut Models
Pig husbandry can directly and indirectly affect the quality of the pigs’ meat cuts. Our Butcher Pork Cut Models include 13 life-like magnetic models of pork cuts to help students learn to identify, locate, and prepare each piece. This pork carcass model, which is about half the size of a real pig, features realistic bone, muscle, and tendon definition.
10. Beef & Pork 3D Meat Cuts Poster
This Beef & Pork 3D Meat Cuts Poster represents primal beef and pork meat cuts in realistic, full-color detail. It contours to the shape of the animal and represents the most common cuts of beef and pork. It details pork cuts from the shoulder, loin, ham/leg, picnic shoulder, and side.
Additional Resources
- Learn how you can make an impact on agriculture students in our on-demand webinar
- Explore a variety of free posters you can hang in your classroom
- Discover free career exploration lesson plans
