Heat Stress: How it impacts feeding behaviour in lactating sows

Heat stress can reduce a sows feed intake, which can result in reduced milk production and therefore have a negative knock-on effect on piglet growth. How can the climate affect the lactating sows feeding behaviour? During the past decades, the production of pigs in tropical regions, such as Latin America and Asia, increased intensively. In these regions, production and performance generally remain below those obtained in temperate countries, such as Europe. Climate is the first most limiting f