Farm visit: Tracking piglets on their path to growth

Richard van den Brand is the proud and curious owner of a 400-sow farrow-to-finish facility in the south of the Netherlands. His farm was the ideal location for a farm trial to discover more about supplementary feeding of piglets during lactation. Does the effect of supporting young piglets with access to milk replacer last all the way until slaughter? Stefan Hermans could almost do it blindfolded. With his left hand he takes one of the piglets from a green box and places it into another box