Pig production is a highly competitive business which demands increasingly intensive methods and innovative thinking. Good environmental design and management is essential to combine profitability and high productivity with animal health and welfare. This is a textbook, reference book and handbook for students, pig farmers and farm building consultants which sets out the principles of environmental design and management for intensive pig production systems. The methods and data presented in the book will be applicable to pig production systems anywhere in the world.
The book explains the basic principles leading to the choice of housing and includes practical recommendations to show how future requirements should be planned. Of particu;lar interest in terms of energy efficiency is chapter 7, which deals with heating and ventilation.