Newborn piglets in a piglet nest above their heads the novel eHeat device is built in. [Photo: Vincent ter Beek]
Piglets need warmth, but not always light – a newly developed, intelligent heat source provides only heat when piglets need it, thus eventually better meeting the pigs’ requirements as well as saving energy and money. Every now and again, innovations are introduced of which one thinks – why didn’t anybody think of this before? After all, it is not rocket science to generate heat through different ways than light. Then why have heat lamps become common practice to help keep the young
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