Making a pigpen needs a thorough plan in order to make it best suited to the animals. Here is a sample procedure in constructing a typical pigpen:
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Consider the usual area which is 4x8 sq.m.
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Instead of a cement floor, dig the ground 90 centimeter or 3 feet deep and fill it with a mixture of rice hull, shredded coconut husk, rice straw and other farm wastes.
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Add to the dirt flooring about 10% soil, 0.3% salt and 0.1% lime.
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Put two layers or more hollow blocks underground and one or two layer above the ground.
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Construct a stable posts and roof, while side wall should be open for ventilations.
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After construction, the moisture content of the dirt flooring should be maintained at 60 percent to let the good bacteria thrive and multiple best. Hence, inoculates the pigpen with lactobacilli just once before putting pigs inside. There are usually wet spot in the pigpen like where the animals urinate. The moisture content in such spots can be adjusted by adding some dry soil. Aside from helping adjust the moisture content in the pigpen, the soil is also a source of necessary minerals for the nutrition of the pigs. Feed the pigs with ordinary hog rations but also give them a lot of cut grasses which also provide the animals with necessary vitamins.
If you can keep the pigpen ground in good condition like a fertile soil on a vegetable field, skip using lactobacilli. The main function of lactobacilli is only to maintain the condition of the ground. When the soil is fertile, many good bacteria grow itself, including lactobacilli. To check ground condition, see whether the pigs are digging and eating the soil very well. If not, then it means bad condition.