Housing and equipment

A new guide has been created to help alleviate livestock stress and keep them safe if farm water supplies are interrupted.

Infrared thermography can be used as a non-invasive method for the evaluation of heat stress in free-farrowing sows.

Farmers from North Dakota to Iowa buckled down for some of the coldest weather in a generation and so did their livestock.

Sow housing during gestation continues to draw debate as some hog operations make a switch from crates to pens for gestation. The results are mixed.

Are 'megafarms' sustainable and how is the swine industry reacting to the increasing emergence of intensive systems?

Top tips from across the globe on how to manage high temperatures on farm, how to prevent and treat heat stress in pigs and how to manage water shortages during a drought.

Global farm advisor discusses the progression of WAP’s business case for group sow housing and enrichment, and working with producers to ensure they can meet new standards.

Compassion in World Farming discusses indoor group housing systems for dry sows and provides an up-to-date comparison of how such systems meet the needs of the sow and the stockworker

Compassion in World Farming provides a tail-biting contingency plan for all pig producers wanting to reduce the incidences of tail-biting on-farm and improve the welfare of their pigs.

There is nothing more important than the health of your pigs. Therefore, it is vital to learn about the signs and effects of enteric diseases in the swine herd. Enteric diseases are gastrointestinal disorders that, if le…

A warning to farmers to check minimum ventilation rates in their piggeries, following the prolonged cold spell, has been issued by an environmental specialist.

What a pig sees when it looks into a mirror may help Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists improve livestock housing.

GLOBAL - Globally, PRRS is the number one disease that pig producers and veterinarians battle, making routine monitoring efforts critical to successful control of the deadly virus.

Join our new free webinar titled "Diagnosis of PRRS virus infection in endemic and epidemic situations using oral fluids" to learn the many benefits of oral fluid diagnostic testing.

Pig production around the globe has become very sophisticated with well-controlled environments that, if controlled properly, maximize animal well-being and production efficiency. The major thermal challenge in pig housi…

Nationally we have an aging ‘fleet’ of barns, with the last big building effort concentrated between 1991 and 1998; these barns have seen more than half their productive life, even with good maintenance.

The pig building ventilation guide from AHDB Pork aims to help producers provide optimum living conditions for pigs, thereby improving production efficiency, through a better understanding of the principles of ventilatio…

This guide from the FAO provides information on how to create the most efficient pig housing for small scale or backyard pig production

For the smallholder or small-scale producer who doesn’t farm pigs on an industrial scale, keeping pigs through the winter can be a daunting prospect writes Dan Turner for The Pig Site.

Silence, or something close to it, is a wonderful thing to hear in a sow gestation barn. It’s the sound of productivity, and one that many pork producers incorrectly assume they can’t achieve.