A farm trialling the use of a farrowing tent with one of its outdoor pig herds is seeing big welfare benefits for sows, piglets and the staff managing them. Fawley Farms, near Christchurch in ...

This study aimed to determine the effect of three different farrowing huts on the behaviour of outdoor housed sows and piglets during summer in Eastern Canada, with a focus on thermoregulatory and ...

The hut temperature in outdoor pig production during summer can exceed the upper critical temperature of lactating sows. Therefore, sows may experience hyperthermia, a condition which has several ...

He placed outdoor farrowing huts inside a 30-by-80 metal pole building at the ISU Allee Demonstration Farm near Newell. The only heat sources were heat lamps and a radiant tube heater. The tube heater ...

East Anglian pig genetics firm Rattlerow Farms has picked up awards for joint managing director Adrian Lawson's eye-catching Aardvark Farrowing Hut. SARAH CHAMBERS reports. Ensuring his pigs are ...