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We explain the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of these two ventilation systems for pig farms.

The pig industry needs to counteract concerns about climate change and provide evidence we are making efforts to minimize our environmental footprint.

Heat stress is estimated to have a cost in the US pig industry alone of around $300 million.

Interview with the owner of Yangxiang to understand a bit better the development of the project and what they have learned.

333, together with Javier Lorente, visits the spectacular Chinese farm in which 28,000 sows are housed in 9-storey buildings.

The use of a thermometer or other technologies not so usual such as thermography for diagnosing sensitive situations cheaply, easily and objectively.

The effect of environment temperature on the body temperature is greater than that of ingestion and digestion of food.

Floor cooling is based on the conduction of heat from the sow to a sink while lying down.

This time, Joan Wennberg discusses the different feeding and environmental control systems in the farrowing house with Heraclio Corchón and Javier Lorente

Pigs exposed to heat stress increase their body temperature and reduce the size of their intestinal villi, thus increasing the loss of endogenous AAs and reducing the abundance of AA transporters in the intestine, as well as apparent and standardized ileal digestibility of AAs.

This article summarizes the main points to beat heat stress in pigs.

The article suggests various environmental and feed program changes and assesses their effect on pig performance and feed cost.

With this aim, micro sprinklers soak periodically the area where we wish the animals to defecate.

This behaviour avoids the submissive animals from having access to water with enough frequency.

Managing the pig’s environment with the goal of heat removal is an increasing need, especially when pens are more crowded.

Current pig market weights are through the roof and at all-time highs for the modern period of meat pig production. We should be noticing a big decline shortly but…