Nutrition is key throughout a pig’s lifetime, and particularly important for the breeding females of the herd in order to achieve optimum piglet production and growth. On a recent Farming Connect ...

In her doctoral project, Signe Lovise Thingnes (Norwegian School of Veterinary Science/Norsvin business PhD candidate) used three different methodological approaches in order to investigate how gilts ...

Big Dutchman is the world’s leading supplier of housing and feeding equipment for modern pig and poultry production, represented in more than 100 countries around the globe. Danish farmer Jeppe Bloch ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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In turn, Feeding Medina County offers the students a free cooking and basic kitchen skills class at Williams on the Lake, using fresh produce from the garden, Calvert said. Patricia Andrews, one of ...