Puppies and sea lions are adorable, but how could anyone expect them to compete with a mama sow and her piglets? Piglets ...

K-State swine specialist Mike Tokach says advancements in litter sizes and sow performance led researchers to investigate nutrient intake.

To start off, he bought five pregnant large white sows at Sh25,000 each. But being a beginner pig farmer, all the piglets died a few weeks after farrowing. “It was so discouraging to lose all ...

Farrowing crates have been in widespread use in the pork industry since the 1960s to restrict a nursing sow from accidentally killing their young. Piglet mortality in farrowing crates could ...