If your sows could choose a style of group housing, they would pick the one designed to keep them calm and comfortable. Electronic Sow Feeders with forward exits in correctly-designed group pens have ...

This study was conducted to evaluate a strategy of using feeding stalls to protect low-ranking sows in group-housing systems. Sows (n = 150, parity 1–9) were mixed at weaning in pens of 15 sows.

A new farm near Thorp run by New Fashion Pork with the capacity for a 1,400-sow operation will be using the Nedap Electronic Sow Feeding system. Nedap said the system on what’s called the “Old Fashion ...

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 ...

Creep feed intake is variable and may be partly homeostatically and exploratory driven. We studied effects of maternal feed restriction and a ‘play-feeder’ on piglet behaviour and performance. 37 ...

Despite grain prices softening the past two weeks, corn and soybean prices are still at levels not seen in years. And that has livestock producers facing some difficult decisions, including pork ...