Nursing 15 piglets? Sows can do it

10-02-2020 | | |
Aarestrup Moustsen
A healthy and high performing Danish sow at the trial. Photo: Vivi Aarestrup Moustsen
A healthy and high performing Danish sow at the trial. Photo: Vivi Aarestrup Moustsen
Sows can achieve a lot, but is it possible to quantify the potential of nursing piglets? Recent Danish research put sows to the test – and they passed it. Housing and welfare expert Vivi Aarestrup Moustsen explains how that went. That sows have a great potential to nurse piglets is no news, it can be read for instance in a previous expert opinion in Pig Progress. The extent of that potential was further illustrated recently by results in a trial at SEGES Danish Pig Research Centre (DPRC), wh


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Vincent
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