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New Sow Welfare Standards Now in Effect
2015-12-04 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
NEW ZEALAND - New rules for sow housing have come into effect today.
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What to Consider When Renovating Sow Barns
2015-11-30 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - A consultant with FGC Construction advisees pork producers who are deciding whether to convert their sow barns from stall housing to group housing to consider several factors, writes Bruce Cochrane.
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Group sow housing: The Quebec report
2015-11-02 14:39:00| National Hog Farmer
By Sébastien Turcotte, Centre de Développement du Porc du Québec Inc. To document the first retrofitting of swine barns to group-house gestating sows, staff from Development Centre of Quebec Pork Inc. visited eight Quebec farms with different feeding systems, two farms for each system. read more
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Sow Operations Needed to Participate in Group Sow Housing Conversion Project
2015-10-28 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - A search is underway for swine operations interested in participating in a research project under which their conversions to group sow housing will be documented for use by other producers considering the change, writes Bruce Cochrane.
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Electronic sow feeding: An alternative thats manageable
2015-10-22 22:56:00| National Hog Farmer
By Tom Parsons, University of Pennsylvania, V.M.D., Ph.D. Producers planning to build new sow facilities and/or stay in the business long enough to recapitalize their existing sow facilities will likely need to confront decisions about sow housing. The goal of this article is to share our experiences with implementing electronic sow feeding as an alternative to the gestation stall. read more
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