When most people think of a pigsty, they probably imagine a simple room with feed and room for the animals to grow. But how ...

The days of sows pilfering expensive creep feed are over on two outdoor pig units in Norfolk, which have each designed a feeder to prepare piglets for life after weaning. Both sow-proof creep feeders ...

Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Jun., 1995), pp. 57-61 (5 pages) Feeding places were provided for two pigs in each pen of 20 pigs. In Treatment 1, the two pigs faced ...

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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 ...

A completely randomised design experiment was conducted to determine if group-housed grower-finisher pigs (43.9 to 95 kg) show differences in performance and nitrogen utilisation when provided with a ...

Bosses at a Suffolk pig farm equipment manufacturer are hoping for an uplift in export sales following a visit to Japan. Quality Equipment (QE) managing director Jamie Baker and export director ...

The days of sows pilfering expensive creep feed are over on two outdoor pig units in Norfolk, which have each designed a feeder to prepare piglets for life after weaning. Both sow-proof creep feeders ...