What the textbooks don’t tell you about…The costs of rescue decks

Following the article ‘A rescue package for piglets in need’, by Dr Albert van Dijk, in Pig Progress 28.01, I put some cost-benefits to use, obtained from a selection of reliable sources. Conclusions are encouraging. Of course, costs for installing rescue decks in sow farms vary from country to country. In general, a figure for a 250-sow herd would be around €1,830 per deck including all the support materials and delivery. There are exceptions – at least one sophisticated