Manipulable materials – are you using them?

It’s an ongoing discussion – mainpulable materials in a pig house seem quite incompatible with a slatted flooring system. Why not consider the relatively simple idea of straw racks? In the UK, as part of our legislative requirement,  growing and finishing pigs must have permanent access to a sufficient quantity of material  (such as straw, hay, wood, sawdust, mushroom compost, peat) to enable proper investigat