date:Jun 06, 2014
rom 10 organic pig farms, including information on the temperature in the hut, sow body condition and health, and piglet mortality.
Previous studies suggest that birth weight is a major contributory factor. Pigs with low birth weight are usually weaker and succumb more easily to hunger, chill and crushing by the sow.
There is a negative relationship between birth weight and litter size. This means that the larger the litter size, the higher the risk that the birth weight will be low and that p