Newborn Piglet Articles & Analysis: Older
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Evidence for the domestication of sus scrofa domesticus - or in common parlance, the “domestic pig” - extends back over 10 thousand years ago, though the first examples of pig farrowing pens only appeared in the early 19th century. Some of the earliest examples come from the United Kingdom, where in 1807 “Mr. Pattinson’s Pig Cases” were promoted to produce healthier ...
This is the only stage of swine production that two distinct temperature environments are necessary because we have both a mature sow and newborn piglets in the same area. To date, there has been much research on temperature of gestating sows leading up to farrowing (Robbins et al, 2019). ...