Pork production center

Claim 1

An animal house for growing and finishing hogs comprising in combination a roof, a pair of windowed end walls, a substantially oPen side wall, a plurality of partitions within said house defining a plurality of pens which extend along the substantially open side wall, at least a portion of said partitions being of solid construction to define a relatively draft-free hog sleeping area, a side wall opposite substantially open side wall having a plurality of windows therein with the bottom of said windows being located in a horizontal plane not substantially lower than the horizontal plane intersecting the upper end of said pen-defining partitions, a passageway extending longitudinally within said house adjacent the side wall having a plurality of windows therein, a solid sloped portion ranging from about 40 to 70% of the floor area of each pen having embedded therein coils for circulation of water with said solid sloped portion defining the floor area of the hog sleeping area, a second substantially horizontally disposed portion of the floor area of each pen being slatted with said slatted floor area being entirely disposed over a deep collection pit which extends beyond the confines of the animal house, a feed trough adjacent to or on the slatted floor portion of each of said pens but spaced from said hog sleeping area, and a water trough located adjacent to or on the slatted floor portion of each of said pens but spaced from said hog sleeping area.