Nutrition for sow claw horn quality and integrity

With sows increasingly being kept loose during gestation, and farrowing crates likely to disappear, claw quality and integrity are becoming much more important. How can nutrition help improve claw quality conditions? Lameness is a multifactorial disorder affecting swine welfare and profitability. Lameness is defined as a deviation from the normal gait caused by lesions, diseases and other factors such as genetics, nutrition, housing systems and management practices. It may be episodic, and beca