AMES, Iowa – Veterinary researchers at Iowa State University have devised a novel means of delivering pain medication to piglets through the milk of the mother sow as the piglets nurse. It’s a ...

Jan. 26 (UPI) --A farmer in Thailand captured video of a mother pig allowing a thirsty puppy to nurse alongside her similarly-sized piglets. The video, filmed last week at a farm in Korat, shows a ...

After a mama pig at a Manheim farm died of natural causes, a York farmer stepped in and offered some of his sows to act as wet nurses for seven, 4-day-old orphaned piglets. Andrea Wade, a farmer in ...

The efficacy of analgesics such as meloxicam and ketoprofen to control pain in piglets when mixed with iron dextran (ID) before injection is unknown. The purpose of this study was to compare perceived ...

We saw this mom pig with 8 of her baby piglets nursing a the same time. It looked like their eyes still were not open and they were struggling to find the nipples. It was amazing. Such a beautiful ...