What the textbooks don’t tell you about… Hot weather

Summer’s here in the Northern hemisphere, and with it those listless sows and languid gilts, reduced appetite, stuffy, overhot farrowing houses, sunburn for the outdoor pigs – and irritable stockpeople trying to keep pace with it all! Stimulated by some excellent and mainly new advice from PIC recently, I realised that the pig textbooks I have (and I have most of them) are not all that ‘hot’ on warm weather advice, so perhaps a few updating remarks may be useful. Things the