Correct layouts when moving pigs manually

06-08-2018 | | |
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John Gadd Topic: Pig Management
Photo: Bert Jansen
Photo: Bert Jansen
Moving pigs can be quite a nuisance if the animals don’t cooperate, pig management expert John Gadd wrote in a previous contribution. Techniques however exist to make your life easy, he says. Here he discusses the manual method – with plenty of inspiration from Dr Temple Grandin. In my previous article I drew together several useful ‘do’s’ and ‘don’ts’ when having to move pigs. In this follow-up piece I suggest some layouts when needing to weigh pigs in what I suppose we have to


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