The Ties that Bind
Show ring competition offers common ground for young and old...
Sows on the Silver Screen
Sows at the University of Illinois are being videotaped around the clock to determine if their “microenvironment” might create stress. By filming the activities of sows...
One Size Does Not Fit All
The variation in body size of sows needs greater consideration before gestation stalls are abandoned altogether. Pork producers should ask themselves...
Pen Gestation Isn't Complicated
The general manager of the country's largest pen gestation system says producers shouldn't fear group sow housing. Bob Ivey wanted to leave the standing-room-only...
Sow Housing Debated
A University of Illinois animal scientist offers support for individual stalls, while a Canadian scientist provides an overview of group sow housing research....
Stalls or Pens? Ask the Sows!
Is the move to abandon stalls for gestating sows a done deal? Not in some people's minds. Listen close and you'll hear a murmur spreading in the pork...
Accident Response Plan
North Carolina's largest integrator has formalized a means of dealing with live hog-hauling accidents to ensure animal well-being. Murphy-Brown's Animal...
Apparatus Eases Pig Moving Chore
Canadian producer's invention makes moving pigs a one-person job. Mary Haugh was desperate. Her husband had just suffered two heart attacks in three days,...
Exercise Improves Bone Density
Trials of encouraged-exercise in gestating stall-housed sows improved bone density, bone-breaking strength and piglet survivability, but it had no real...
Gestation Pen Design: Space, Simplicity
A new sow gestation pen design is aimed at protecting market access. Doug Groth, DVM, says the new pen configuration for sow gestation at Bluff Road Genetics...
