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The pigs live in roomy barns, with windows and fans for natural light and ventilation.
The barns also have exhaust and ceiling fans to circulate the air. The floors of the pens are covered with straw and clover, which is changed twice each day. The sows and boars live inside and outside year round. The barn is equipped with doors that allow the pigs to go outside when ever they wish. The straw on the floor keeps them warm and dry in the winter and there is a mud hole outside for them in the summer to keep them cool. |
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A heat lamp is used to keep the piglets warm. After they get stronger, in about 7 to 10
days the sow and her piglets are moved into an open pen with straw to give them more room
to move about. The little pigs can leave the pen and go outside to enjoy themselves during
the summer. When the little pigs are 5 to 6 weeks old they are weaned and moved to another
barn where they are in open pens. The sows then go outside to get rebred.
There is no pit system in the barns so the pigs are not living over a pit of manure and foul smell, which you will find at larger pig operations. |