Water – much more 
than just a nutrient

It sounds logical – if pigs are fed liquid feed, why bother supplying drinkers? Surely they will only constitute an additional cost for water ?wastage? The matter is more complex than that. Water answers to the pigs’ biological and behavioural needs. By Prof Peter Brooks, United Kingdom Despite having spent three decades explaining why pigs on liquid diets must have a separate supply of water, it is still possible to come across pig producers, equipment manufacturers, building suppliers an