date:Jul 10, 2012
to phase out gestation housing within 10 years, the National Pork Board was quick to point out how alternatives, such as group housing, poses its own set of animal-welfare challenges. When sows are thrown together they can become very aggressive, responded Everett Forkner, president of the NPB, who is a hog producer based in Richards, Mo. Dominant sows physically attack the others, bite them and steal their food. The housing used by most farmers was designed to protect sows from this bullying w