Loose Housing: Injury and Labour Costs Must Be Considered

CANADA - Sow housing has become a major animal welfare issue in North America. Using crates or stalls to house gestating sows, although regarded as an industry standard and the mainstay of the breeding industry, is now being frowned upon and a change to loose-housed systems is imminent.
calendar icon 18 January 2008
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