A research scientist with the Prairie Swine Centre says aggression, one of the key challenges in working with group housed sows, can be curbed by providing various forms of enrichment.
The President of Brumm Swine Consultancy says, to accommodate today’s heavier market weight hogs, pork producers need to be looking at increasing the size of their feeders.
A post doctoral fellow in ethology with the Prairie Swine Centre says various forms of enrichment, as required under Canada’s Pig Code of Practice, need not be complex or costly.
A new website planned for launch next month will provide information for swine producers considering converting their sow barns to group housing.
Swine farms considering converting from stall housing to group housing of gestating sows are being invited to participate in a nation-wide sow housing conversion project.
To comply with new requirements under Canada’s revised Pig Code of Practice and maintain economic viability, most pork producers considering converting existing sow barns from stall housing to group housing rather than building new.
A research scientist with the Prairie Swine Centre reports changes to Canada’s Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs has fueled an increased interest in the implications of transitioning from conventional stall housing of gestating sows to group housing.
The chair of the Canadian Pork Council’s Animal Care Technical Group says the incorporation of the newly revised Canadian Pig Code of Practice into the Canadian Quality Assurance program will provide the opportunity to make added improvements to the program.
The chair of the Canadian Pork Council’s Animal Care Technical Group expects the incorporation of requirements of the newly updated Canadian Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Pigs into the Canadian Quality Assurance Program to be completed and ready for testing by mid-2015.
