Breeding Danish gilts in China

06-04-2016 | |
It looks Danish, but it is in China: gestating sows in group housing with straw racks at their disposal.<br />[Photo: Vincent ter Beek]
It looks Danish, but it is in China: gestating sows in group housing with straw racks at their disposal.
[Photo: Vincent ter Beek]
Several years ago, Danish pig breeding company DanAvl decided it was time to make the jump to China and invested in several Chinese projects. A new breeding farm has been established, just as its own commercial production, and new investments are underway. “Sometimes Chinese customers tell us that they would rather order breeding gilts directly from Denmark than from our breeding herd here in China. ‘After all it is still China’, they tell me. But it is not! At the Dan Yu Bree


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Vincent ter Beek Editor of Pig Progress / Topic: Pigs around the world