Group housing guidelines
Their report, titled Towards January 2013: Updates, implications and options for group housing pregnant sows, was launched last Friday.
This reference document for producers switching to group housing provides a set of blueprints for the guidance of producers in selecting and designing loose housing systems. It also incorporates best practice guidelines on mixing sows, rearing and managing replacement gilts, preventing and treating lameness in loose housed sows, feeding loose housed sows and environmental advice.
