Free farrowing under commercial conditions

Søren Larsen, a Danish piglet producer, has both traditional ?farrowing pens as well as farrowing pens with loose sows. The latter are the type that he prefers – and these can always be viewed by members of the public. By Anja Pernille Jacobsen, 
freelance journalist, Denmark It was October 2009, when Søren Larsen, a piglet producer in Dronninglund, northern Denmark, began to use a new farrowing section with 14 individual pens for loose sows. The new pens were built with funding from a