Group housing sows

April 2025 - August 2023

Producer & DVM perspective: Biggest challenges facing the pork industry

Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS

8 April 2025

11 minute read

PRRS, labor, sow housing and foreign animal disease top the list for this veterinarian who is also a pork producer

Gestation environment of gilts impacts brain development in pigs

Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare Group housing sows

1 July 2024

5 minute read

Brazilian research looks at the influence of the external environment including gestation crates which are slated to be banned in Brazil in 2045

Risk factors for dystocia during farrowing

Pig Welfare Group housing sows Herd management

6 November 2023

4 minute read

A dystocia event is a piglet-to-piglet birth interval exceeding 60 minutes or sows requiring obstetrical intervention

Litter size affects nest-building behavior in group-housed sows

Pig Welfare Group housing sows Free farrowing

23 October 2023

3 minute read

The interpretation of nest-building behavior in relation to sow physiology is unclear

Factors associated with increased sow mortality

Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS

30 August 2023

2 minute read

Locomotion and reproduction issues are mostly responsible for sow mortality

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