The critical elements for success on all swine breeding farms include accurate detection of estrus and use of proven breeding ...

Pregnant sows are quite large (typically 500–800 pounds), so this ... the current policy was passed—the association should encourage a transition from gestation crates to group housing. Further, since ...

Gestation crates are metal enclosures, typically seven feet long and two feet wide, where a pregnant female pig, a sow, is kept during her pregnancy. The stalls are so small that sows typically ...

Prop 12 prohibits the inherently cruel practice of keeping pigs in gestation crates — cages so tiny they can’t even turn around. These common-sense animal welfare protections afforded by Prop ...

The stalls confine sows so tightly that they are unable to engage in natural behaviours or even turn around. Now the industry is pushing to delay the phase-out of gestation crates to 2029 ...

The law bans some types of extreme confinement of farm animals, specifically gestation crates -- which are metal cages, often so small sows cannot turn around. Some provisions of the 2018 law have ...

Called "sow stalls", the crates have been banned in the UK since ... still be used for the first four weeks in a sow's four-month pregnancy. It is argued that using stalls allows for better ...

"In reality, these sows, who have multiple litters of piglets each year, are confined in gestation crates during each pregnancy for approximately four to six weeks, 24 hours a day, seven days a week." ...