The best ventilation for group-housed sows on straw

Pig management expert John Gadd has more often written about airbags – simple solutions to help solve local ventilation problems in pig houses. Now what to do when sows are kept in groups on straw – are airbags still a good solution there? Airbag ventilation is becoming popular. This is the ‘movable’ and cheaper-to-install version of ‘trunked’ air distribution, which is based on solid, fixed materials. An airbag system on the other hand can have the air inlets quickly and easily alt