Group housing systems and their influence on sows

Now that group housing for sows is fairly commonplace, a next question is: does it matter which type of group housing systems is applied? For sows, an enriched group housing system demonstrably makes a difference – for piglets that effect appears to be less prominent. It’s been more than four years now since group housing for gestating sows has become mandatory in the EU. Ever since, developments have continued to happen. An increasing number of operations in the United States have also dec