What the textbooks don’t tell you about… Crushing

Reading a Nadis Health Bulletin about the subject of crushing, recently issued by BPEX in the UK, encouraged me to look through the pig textbooks on my shelves to see what they said about it. After all, Nadis reported that of losses to weaning reaching 12.45% on some farms, 6.66% were due to crushing. That caught my attention straightaway.   Several textbooks dealt with the subject, but rather superficially to my mind. So I turned to the veterinary tomes – to my surprise they were no