{"id":19643,"date":"2017-07-06T09:54:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19643"},"modified":"2017-07-06T09:54:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:54:55","slug":"the-future-of-sow-housing-stalls-or-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/the-future-of-sow-housing-stalls-or-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FUTURE OF SOW HOUSING: STALLS OR GROUPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more controversial aspects of pig production is the housing of gestating sows. Gestation stalls\u00a0have been identified as one of the three most restrictive practices, along with battery cages for hens and\u00a0crates for veal calves, throughout the history of the modern animal welfare movement.<\/p>\n<p>This speech outlines pros and cons of four different group housing systems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Floor feeding\n<ul>\n<li>Low cost<\/li>\n<li>High space requirement<\/li>\n<li>Increased agression<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Trickle\/Bio-Box feeding\n<ul>\n<li>Lowered aggression<\/li>\n<li>Moderate space requirements<\/li>\n<li>High cost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Individual feed stalls\n<ul>\n<li>Meets individuals nutritional needs well<\/li>\n<li>Increased labour costs but decreased space and input<\/li>\n<li>minimal agression<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>ESF\n<ul>\n<li>Greatest control of feed intake<\/li>\n<li>Ability to monitor animals intake directly over time<\/li>\n<li>High cost<\/li>\n<li>additional training<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/THE-FUTURE-OF-SOW-HOUSING.pdf\">THE FUTURE OF SOW HOUSING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more controversial aspects of pig production is the housing of gestating sows. Gestation stalls\u00a0have been identified as one of the three most restrictive practices, along with battery cages for hens and\u00a0crates for veal calves, throughout the history of the modern animal welfare movement. This speech outlines pros and cons of four different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16108,19,8,928],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition-pork-insight-articles","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre-old","category-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19645,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19643\/revisions\/19645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}