When most people think of a pigsty, they probably imagine a simple room with feed and room for the animals to grow. But how ...

Five-gallon buckets are ubiquitous and cheap. But did you know they can also be hacked, hod-rodded, reengineered, and upcycled to create dozens of useful DIY project for homeowners, gardeners, ...

The days of sows pilfering expensive creep feed are over on two outdoor pig units in Norfolk, which have each designed a feeder to prepare piglets for life after weaning. Both sow-proof creep feeders ...

Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Jun., 1995), pp. 57-61 (5 pages) Feeding places were provided for two pigs in each pen of 20 pigs. In Treatment 1, the two pigs faced ...

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Walk onto a modern hog farm and it is typical to find climate-controlled farrowing houses filled with hardworking sows nursing litters of 12 or more piglets. That scene, says Kansas State University ...

A completely randomised design experiment was conducted to determine if group-housed grower-finisher pigs (43.9 to 95 kg) show differences in performance and nitrogen utilisation when provided with a ...

The days of sows pilfering expensive creep feed are over on two outdoor pig units in Norfolk, which have each designed a feeder to prepare piglets for life after weaning. Both sow-proof creep feeders ...