Creep feeding - the outdoor challenge!
UK - For most outdoor pig producers creep feeding of piglets while on the sow is a bane. It is so impractical that most simply don't do it. So when the pigs are weaned they are faced not only with the shock of losing mum and the warm milk she provides, but strange surroundings, new pen-mates and, most important of all, a food they've never tasted before.
31 January 2006
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