Thoughtful preparation of the nursery goes a long way toward reducing stress and promoting pig health and welfare.
Activists are celebrating “landmark” animal welfare reforms that could spare millions of animals from being gassed to death or suffering in cramped cages for their meat, eggs or fur. Campaigners say ...
Regardless of international animal welfare regulations, most sows in production currently spend most of their lives and the peripartum period in caged housing systems. Although this type of management ...
Walk onto a modern hog farm and it is typical to find climate-controlled farrowing houses filled with hardworking sows nursing litters of 12 or more piglets. That scene, says Kansas State University ...
When formulating diets for sows it is possible to reduce dietary protein by decreasing soybean meal inclusion and increase ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuffield Scholar Nicola Bowers and Yorkshire Agricultural Society CEO Allister Nixon (Image: Supplied) A pig veterinary technician ...
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