Three month old finishing pigs sniff at and nibble at the yellow rooting cones at Fangmann farm in Dinklage, Germany.
Since January 2013, providing distraction materials to sows and pigs has become mandatory in the EU. A host of different solutions have been shown at trade shows, but funnily enough, pigs don’t seem too interested. What if a toy did capture their interest? Why make a pig toy bright yellow? Researcher Nicola Jathe smiles. “Yellow is a colour the pigs will easily distinguish as it is not a colour that shows up in a farm regularly. In addition, red is not a colour pigs can see well… And besi
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