AMES, Iowa – Veterinary researchers at Iowa State University have devised a novel means of delivering pain medication to piglets through the milk of the mother sow as the piglets nurse. It’s a ...

IUGR piglets can represent up to 30% of a contemporary litter but account for the overwhelming majority of preweaning ...

After a mama pig at a Manheim farm died of natural causes, a York farmer stepped in and offered some of his sows to act as wet nurses for seven, 4-day-old orphaned piglets. Andrea Wade, a farmer in ...

In a new study, researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, together with colleagues from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, have investigated the impact that a barren living environment for sows ...