Training piglets to grow from the start

Pigs have a lot of potential for growth. In order to live up to that, it’s important to train the animals’ guts virtually straight from birth. Keeping that in mind, an early feeding programme with an automatic dispensing system was installed at Bankers farm, the Netherlands. Perhaps not the most delicious of anecdotes to start with, but it is a suitable way to start this article. A sow, lying in her lactation crate, rises up as nature calls. Several onlookers, Roel van der Bruggen being one