The Manitoba Pork Council’s plan released last week commits hog farmers to eliminate sow gestation stalls within the next 15 years. “Manitoba Pork commits to encouraging producers to phase out by 2025 ...
Walk onto a modern hog farm and it is typical to find climate-controlled farrowing houses filled with hardworking sows nursing litters of 12 or more piglets. That scene, says Kansas State ...
which would redefine them as a type of ‘feral pig’, a new breed of hog characterised particularly by its reproductive ability with up to 12 piglets at a time per sow. In the last 15 years, the ...
We all nodded and the man on the fringe proceeded with his tale. “This boar,”said he, “was beloved of every sow from the headwaters of the Brick River to the silver mouth of the Cashen.
His swine operation consisted of a dozen or so sows and one boar. I might be called to provide veterinary ... He had purchased a large-framed Poland China boar a couple of years earlier. If readers ...
This summer, however, the hunter got game camera pictures of a pair of black pigs that were larger than the average wild pig. In fact ... a good thing because the sow tipped the scales at 504 ...