Artificial Nature / AGRIPAM
Stimulating pig's senses and Primal Instincts
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The Concept
Fertility & Abundance
Controlled lighting- mimicking the Nature
Sounds Recorded in Nature/ Music @ specific GhZ
Olfactory scents
Human - Farmed Animal Relations
We've placed all of our efforts on changing the farm by creating the ambience in which our pigs are grown. We created an ambient conditions, resembling
4 seasons present in the Northern Hemisphere. We introduced different colored lighting in all of the farm's sectors mimicking
a natural habitat. Sounds recorded in nature/ music are used throughout the farm to further stimulate the "Primordial Instincts" encoded in modern pigs. Additionally, specific scents are used to provoke certain behaviors during the sow's reproductive cycle.
Our crew works with the pigs in such manner as to minimize the stress factor in all the sectors of the farm. We've created ambient conditions which are aimed to naturally stimulate the sows to perform their principal task of passing on their genes to the next generation.
"Artificial Nature" concept created by Agripam
Artificial Nature
The senses
A visual map of the environmental stimuli used by the concept.
☀Light
≋Sound
∿Scent
◎Human contact
⌁Environment
Four seasons
Nature as a rhythm
About Us
About Us
The 'Artificial Nature' concept was developed in the second part of 2023. We focused on finding methods to stimulate pig's acute senses and reproductive instincts which could be implemented in a commercial sow farm standards.
Developing ideas for the 'AN' we kept in mind that a modern domesticated farm pig is closely related with its ancestor the wild boar.
Taking these facts into account and months of our observations of the instinctual behaviors exhibited everyday by pigs in the farm, we developed a concept solely dedicated for the mind of pigs. Being that a pig is an intelligent animal which is greatly affected by its environment we used this fact to make changes in the surroundings of their everyday habitat, which was confined to concrete and metal.
The principle idea of the AN concept is to stimulate the animals in the different stages of their reproductive cycle by creating specific ambient conditions, oriented in stimulating its mind and its senses.
The AN concept also involves a human - pig socializing sessions. The sessions are performed every day by 3 tamers, who concentrate on developing positive relations with the animals. The tamers play a big role in the overall well-being condition, the physical as well as the mental condition of the sows.
This is a very important part of the AN concept, the socializing sessions which create positive emotions in pigs and at the same time reduce fear and stress.
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