This year’s fair was another delight, and once again my parents made the trek to come with me to the fair. My mother loved seeing the draft horses thunder around the arena. The draft horse ...

but the difference to ordinary farrowing pens was small. What was tested? In the first phase of the project, so-called pilot phase, seven materials were tested in various designs. For weaned piglets, ...

Farrowing: When about to farrow (give birth) separate the pregnant pig from the rest and put her in a special farrowing pen. Pigs in most instances give birth unaided but ensure you provide soft ...

New polling has revealed that an overwhelming 84% of the Scottish public reject the use of farrowing crates for mother pigs.

Farrowing crates have long been a traditional feature of the modern pig farm, whereby the sow is placed in a small enclosure within a larger pen prior to farrowing and during the nursing period ...