ABOVE: Photo: J Oostrom, supplied by the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions In early December, the final stakeholder forum for 2022 of the National Feral Pig Action Plan addressed the theme of ‘The power of data to inform feral pig management strategies’. Feral pig management is difficult, expensive and time consuming. Unfortunately, no single technique…
ABOVE: Piglets are commonly born with low iron reserves. Photo: Kameron Kincade Most producers understand that iron is an essential nutrient for all livestock, vital for producing the proteins that enable red blood cells to carry oxygen around the body and facilitate normal growth. Yet piglets in particular are commonly born with low iron reserves.…
ABOVE: High-rise hog house horror in China. A Concerned almost distraught member of ‘United Poignant Porcines’ alerted me recently to the news that a 26-storey ‘pig tower’ had not only been built in China, but had admitted its first ‘prisoners’, with some 3700 sows already interned. Easily the biggest single-building pig farm in the world,…