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Pork industry says 60,000 piglets could die if farrowing crates are banned


NZ Pork chief executive David Baines told parliament’s primary production select committee on Thursday that a phase out of the crates was a “significant concern” for the industry.
“Internationally there is no better practice that has been proven to work than some use of the farrowing crates in mating stalls,” he said. “If we were to have to move away from the current use of farrowing crates for indoor farms we estimate up to 60,000 piglets would die every year.”
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Taranaki pig farm manager Leon White discusses the controversy around indoor farrowing system.
Baines described the crate as a “maternity pen”, which confined a sow for up to 20 per cent of her life, and provided protection for the piglets so they wouldn’t be crushed, gave them access to the sow’s teat so they wouldn’t starve, and provided a heated area to prevent hypothermia. ....

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