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Lapel, In | or farrowing pens. Been about 25-30 years ago,can't remember for sure. Think maybe his name was Ruben Edwards, Middletown, Missouri, Hampshire breeder,designed and built a farrowing facility . Plastic coated wire floor set on a slope with a creep area an the bottom of the slope. Talked to him and he thought it was the best system,kind of like a new corn planter-no problems was his response. Sow had no choice but to expose her udder to the creep area,(similar to a nest a sow would build in the wild) but she could still get up and move around. Looked like a great idea to me.Was an article in the National Hog Farmer with pictures back then,I think. Anyone know if the idea caught on ? Thought it might satisfy PETA ? | |
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Hillside crates
