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Productivity of British Sows Improves
2015-03-09 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - In 2014, improvements in many aspects of the physical performance of the breeding herd in Great Britain helped to increase the overall productivity of sows.
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Pregnant Women Advised to Avoid Sows at Farrowing
2015-02-05 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
WALES, UK - The Welsh Government has advised pregnant women to avoid close contact with farm animals that are giving birth.
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Sows Exposed to Mild PED Virus Protect Offspring from Severe Form
2015-01-23 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Sows previous infected with a relatively mild strain of the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PED) virus confer protection to their piglets against a more severe strain.
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Majority of Smithfield Sows in More Humane Group Housing
2015-01-12 11:00:56| Food - Topix.net
The largest U.S. pork producer, Smithfield Foods, is showing considerable progress in realizing its commitment to shift breeding pigs out of gestation crates, which immobilize them, to group housing. The move is widely considered more humane, greatly boosting the animals' living conditions by giving pigs the opportunity to move around and express some natural behaviors.
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Smithfield Pig Producer Freed 20 Per Cent of Sows from Stalls
2015-01-07 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Smithfield Foods reports that more than 70 per cent of the sows on its own US farms are now group-housed, and increase of 20 per cent from 2013.
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