Sows and piglets as milk producers and consumers

Aarestrup Moustsen
Piglets drinking milk from a sow on an SPF farm in the Netherlands. - Photo: Theo Kock
Piglets drinking milk from a sow on an SPF farm in the Netherlands. - Photo: Theo Kock
It takes 2 to tango! It also takes 2 – the sow and her litter – to ensure a high milk yield. If conditions are optimal, the highest yielding sows appear to have the potential to produce up to 25 kg milk a day. To do so, they need to be physically fit and have optimal working conditions, explains pig welfare and housing expert Vivi Aarestrup Moustsen. At the most recent annul congress in Denmark for pig producers, Uffe Krogh (previously attached to Aarhus University and now SEGES Innovati


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