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Some Thoughts on Large Group Systems and Sorting
Posted in: Pork Insight Articles, Production by admin on July 13, 2017
Large group housing is being looked at more in order to reduce costs. Conventional wisdom says that larger group should have poorer performance, increased weight variation and an increase in vices. However, the reality is that there is a slight depression in growth especially during the first week but it is only around 1-2% and that there is no increase in variation, vices or health problems.
Some Thoughts on Large group system and sorting