Sows don't transfer antibodies to piglets while in the uterus. They can only be transferred through her colostrum and milk.

What has been described as “a joyful addition” has arrived at Pafos Zoo as one of its Vietnamese pot-bellied sows has given birth to a litter of four piglets.After a gestation period lasting three ...

Caesarean-delivered preterm pigs from two sows given first TPN then formula, as described above, were allocated into controls (n = 13) and a treatment group receiving oral and systemic broad-spectrum ...

Meet Randy, the aptly named guinea pig, who got into an enclosure with 100 females and became a father to 400 babies!

A surge in carcass weights and falling prices have raised fresh concerns for pig producers, as processors grapple with backlogs and tight margins. Carcass weights have crept up for finished pigs in ...

The mother of cartoon favourite, Peppa Pig, features in the moving short, The Story of You, alongside fellow famous mums Oti Mabuse and Billie Shepherd, to remind families that help is always at hand.

The Teagasc pig conference earlier this month was an excellent event, well attended by farmers and most I spoke to afterwards wanted to talk about worms,” said Aidan Byrne, MSD Animal Health.

African Swine Fever (ASF) has been the big news regarding the Chinese hog industry for several years. However, even as the effects have lingered, Chinese pork consumption has been climbing by about 1 ...

Jeremy Clarkson alarmed his fans on Sunday when he revealed cameras had stopped rolling on his farm. The 65-year-old television presenter has an army of fans who are interested in his agricultural ...

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It was almost exactly one week since I had operated on Milo, the ninety-gramme hamster who had been suffering from a bladder ...