Benefits of pre-weaning piglet socialisation

Weaned piglets fight with each other in order to create a stable social group. One way to solve this is to let piglets socialise early. French researchers wanted to check if this method was practical to use on farms and if it lessened the negative impact on behaviour, lesions and growth performance. The trial was carried out on 600 sows at a farrow-to-finish farm in France. Both the test group and the control group the sows were kept in standard closed farrowing crates. The control group were k