Farrowing Crates

Role-play: Pig Farmer

In me lifetime, if anything has brought me and me family health and

well being, it has been the farrowing crates I have bought for me swine.

Invented in 1960’s, this is by far the most innovative appliance for my

concerns. The farrowing crate has introduced to me farm the main

commodities in production rates, sow/piglet survival and profitability. I

resolve that these are the main purposes for this revolutionary comfort.

Traditional work systems have evidently been bypassed in the matter

concerning to provide a safe welfare of the animals in the swine production,

by the recent introduction of the crates. Traditional systems in production

maintained sows among each other during the time of gestation, this

arouses bullying and fighting among sows. The confinement of the sows