Mixing sows into groups only days after AI

As from 2013, all breeding farms in the European Union have to keep their gestating sows in group housing as from a month after insemination. Some producers, experiment further. Smeenk Farms in Haarle, the Netherlands, keeps sows in crates for only a couple of days – and with success. Much has been written and said about it – as from 1 January 2013, all sow breeding farms in the Eureopan Union have to keep their sows in group housing as from four weeks after insemination until one week befo