A sense of pride from free access stall use

A sense of pride comes over Danish farm manager Henrik Mikkelsen when seeing that his sows are in good shape. He keeps his sows in a free access group housing system during gestation. One stall, one sow – and it works fine. It is only one year ago, that production went up to 100% at the new farrow-to-finish production facility at Risgaarden near Viborg, Denmark. These days, the conception rate in the dry sow unit is 95%, achieving 33 piglets weaned/sow/year. A housing system that places th