Transitioning from conventional farrowing crates to flexible farrowing pens will bring many challenges, along with significant opportunities to further improve pig welfare, based on producers’ ...
Lower piglet mortality is the goal when Norwegian researchers study the conditions of perky newborn piglets and their mothers. Several countries aim to reduce the loss of piglets using a system in ...
Uncertainty remains about potential new farrowing regulations requiring the industry to switch from conventional to flexible farrowing systems. These provide sows ...
Farrowing crates have traditionally been used to reduce occurrence of piglet mortality as a result of sow crushing. However the utilisation of traditional farrowing crates has been suggested to ...
Welfare of sows confined to farrowing crates was compromised and they displayed signs of extreme stress, experts say The use of restrictive pens to temporarily house pregnant pigs in the UK severely ...
Fairgoers watch as Yorkshore Cross piglets are born at the livestock nursery at the California State Fair farm in 2005. Manny Crisostomo Sacramento Bee file Two animal rights organizations are suing ...
GETTYSBURG, S.D. — In a world where hog production is largely an indoor sport, one family of pork pros still plays the game like it was originally played — outdoors “We do it the old way,” says Dolan ...
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