A healthy piglet starts 
with a healthy sow

When aiming for the best health for piglets, pork producers should definitely take the ?piglets’ mothers into account as well. There is simply too much happening in and around sows to ignore, that can affect their offspring’s health situation. By Dr Isabelle Le Huërou-Luron , 
senior scientist, INRA, Saint-Gilles, France The environment can influence developmental plasticity and thus phenotypes in a wide variety of animals, from insect to man. The concept that developmental insults (poor