Higher feed intake, better piglet behaviour

Giving sows and piglets more liberty before weaning is a matter of hesitation. Surely this will lead to a higher cost of production? Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands, investigated the positive and negative aspects of a multi-litter approach compared with single-litter housing. Confinement in pig production has been a topic of serious debate over the last decades. An ongoing welfarist call for more freedom for gestating sows has led to the animals being kept in group ho