What the textbooks don’t tell you about… Farming sows in groups.

Coming from Britain, which like the Scandinavian countries has banned the gestating sow-stall, our dry sows are now housed in groups. It seems strange that little is written about this undoubted future trend, brought about by the welfare lobby, like it or not. Some of us now have at least 20 years of experience (I hesitate to say ‘mistakes’ but as a trouble-shooter in this area, there have been quite a few!) of keeping sows in groups profitably and from the sow’s viewpoint –