MANHATTAN, Kan. — Walk onto a modern hog farm and it is typical to find climate-controlled farrowing houses filled with hardworking sows nursing litters of 12 or more piglets.
Surging sow production prompts change
Sows have adapted and gone from having 13 ribs to 15, which has added more mammary glands to accommodate larger litter sizes, says K-State swine specialist Mike Tokach.
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