Group housing varies for hogs | The Pig Site

CANADA - Harold Gonyou predicts hog producers will gradually shift away from gestation stalls in favour of group housing for gestating sows. A research scientist at the Prairie Swine Centre in Saskatoon, Gonyou said opposition to gestation stalls remains strong in Manitoba, due to the efforts of groups such as the Winnipeg Humane Society.

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