piglets

Written by William Kellett from Agriland The French Agriculture Minister, Julien Denormandie, has announced that the killing of male chicks by methods of crushing or gassing will be banned from the start of 2022. The practice has been described as “barbaric” by animal welfare groups and...

The RBST and the Sustainabile Food Trust have been banging on about this issue for a bit. But it seems both the latest food report and George Eustice are missing the point re the important role of small abattoirs to farmers who sell direct or to local butchers. The big companies don’t want the...

Written by William Kellett Clare Gaukroger has joined Cargill’s pig team as research coordinator for the UK. Based in North Yorkshire, she is establishing trials and managing data collection, analysis and interpretation for a wide range of projects on the company’s two UK reference farms...

How do folk get on with having tails docked on working gungog puppies. I am a bit miffed that my vets, who I consider very much still as a strong agricultural practice have refused to dock tails for a litter of cocker pups. These will be working gundogs and for their own welfare news to have...

Written by William Kellett New figures show the amount of antibiotic prescribed to treat pigs on UK farms in 2020 fell by 5%, bringing the total reduction since 2015 to 62%. This was despite disease outbreaks and challenges from disruption to pig flow during the pandemic that meant pigs...

Colostrum quality in pigs is often overlooked in the UK and Ireland, but it can have a profound effect on piglet viability and long term health. The nutrients and antiobodies found in colostrum are directly responsible for providing immunity and energy to piglets. It is only secreted by sows...

Lallemand Animal Nutrition and @AHDB News are inviting the pig industry to join them for an insightful webinar delving into one of the most important aspects of pig production, colostrum quality. The webinar, ‘Colostrum quality: a golden opportunity to improve piglet performance’ will take...

When I get a chance, I will take a photo of the Editorial in today's Times. It doesn't make for pleasant reading if you keep livestock as it relies on data from animal cruelty charities to accuse UK farmers of having welfare standards on a par with China and well below our European...

Have been working on a cheap drinker feeder system. Almost ready to send it out into the field. I have a bodged up trial one that works well, but it's too hideous to show you all! It will have a lower set of nipples around the front for piglets if they want to try something other than mums...

No significant amount of rain in the forecast. Should we be getting concerned yet?

Hi, just after a bit of advice on a lame piglet, he's a Tamworth GOS cross, about 9 weeks old and lame on his front left leg. I think he's gone down a hole or a ditch. I know they are hardy creatures and he's eating and drinking ok, do you think he will heal himself or does he need a vet? I...

Looking to raise a few meat ducks just for our own use, the prices online seem silly £5 to £10 per bird (Aylesbury or Aylesbury cross). Is there a more average price ?

Anybody on here watched seaspiracy on Netflix? Doesn’t make good watching but after some of the programmes falsely portraying farming of late i’m at odds as to whether to believe all that was said in the programme. What do others think is it an accurate portrayal of what is happening?

What is better for farrowing? I don't see a difference.

Not a pig farmer myself but nearby has b&b pigs ,they scream all day long .Infact all night , sleep is something that is now lacking in this household.Never hear other pigs in the area.When I say scream I mean scream like they are been murdered.surely something is not right.

Hi everyone, Just curious, does anybody drop the fender before the pig farrows? We always drop it as we check and find them with piglets, however it seems like unecesarily disturbing the pig at a tender moment. I wondered if having the fender down as soon as the sow moves in would be better...

The breeding performance testing or fattening perfomance MLP are you using in UK for piglets ? What are your results? Need infos for student. Cheers

How come so much demand for prettt much everthing ? Well everthing I try to buy lol get told 15 20 week wait demand is so high etc etc Disney make sense to me blaming Covid and brexit you think these things would ease demand not ramp it up ??

Can someone explain why the pig price has collapsed and how low is it in comparison to what it was in GB. And if it is bad why is there a massive growth in pig units for fattening in Northern Ireland?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/lynx-and-wolves-could-return-to-england-as-rewilding-task-force-set-up-by-pm/ar-BB1ejupK Honestly I think long term this would be a good thing, apex predators are vital for the ecosystem, Yellowstone national park was made vastly more healthy when they...