Farrowing crates are a controversial way to house pregnant sows. They’re designed to ensure the safety of both mother and piglets, but many people feel that they go against the natural behaviors of pigs.

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A farrowing crate is used to confine the sow from up to a week before giving birth, generally until the piglets are weaned at around four weeks. Farrowing crates are restrictive pens that prevent the sow from turning around, and which aim to reduce the risk of the sow lying on and crushing her newborn piglets. Farrowing crates are legal and ...

Farrowing crates are metal cages which severely restrict a sow’s movement. Sows on factory farms are forced to spend much of their lives behind bars. A typical sow spends almost a quarter (22%) of her adult breeding life in a farrowing crate only slightly larger than she is, preventing her from turning around or caring for her newborn piglets ...

2023年2月7日 · Individual Housing Systems – also known as crates or stalls – allow sows to stand up and lie down. It minimizes sow aggression and injury, reduces competition for resources, provides for individual feeding and nutritional management, helps manage each sow’s body condition, and reduces worker injuries.

The farrowing crate was first introduced in the 1960s and its main purpose was to lower the risk of piglets being crushed by the sow by controlling her movements, particularly when lying down. What are the advantages of the farrowing crate?

The far most common housing of sows during the periparturient period and during lactation is the farrowing crate (Fig. 1.4A). The farrowing crate consists of a pen (typically between 3.5 and 4.5 m 2) within which bars are installed to prevent the sow from turning around. Outside the bars, there is space for piglets.

The main purpose of the farrowing crate (cage) is to lower the risk of piglets being crushed by the mother by controlling her movements, particularly when lying down. With healthier, stronger mothers (especially from group housing not cages), this is not necessary and pens allowing mother pigs to turn around and effectively mother their young ...

2020年9月4日 · When a sow is close to giving birth, it is standard industry practice to move her from group/loose housing into a farrowing crate. A farrowing crate is a small metal cage in which sows are confined while they give birth and nurse their …

2022年1月1日 · Farrowing crates are metal stalls in which sows are typically housed from a few days before parturition until weaning (21–28 days). In the 1960s, when intensive farming was considered as the way to improve pork production, farrowing crates was developed (Robertson et …