. Hogology. i. 8 J. J. Jones finds this farrowing: pen combines all ^ood features. Ninety-eight PART II the danger of being caught in thedoorway by an excited hog rushingin or out. The roof door permits sun-light in all parts of the pen and easyaccess at all times, and this is espe-cially valuable at farrowing time andfeeding time, and means a consider-able increase in percentage of pigsraised to litter. While using this style pen, we hadan average of nine living pigs perlitter. We made a considerable moveand were permitted the use of a bunchof A-shape pens. Our sows droppedjust as many pigs,
. Hogology. i. 8 J. J. Jones finds this farrowing: pen combines all ^ood features. Ninety-eight PART II the danger of being caught in thedoorway by an excited hog rushingin or out. The roof door permits sun-light in all parts of the pen and easyaccess at all times, and this is espe-cially valuable at farrowing time andfeeding time, and means a consider-able increase in percentage of pigsraised to litter. While using this style pen, we hadan average of nine living pigs perlitter. We made a considerable moveand were permitted the use of a bunchof A-shape pens. Our sows droppedjust as many pigs, but we raised onaverage of two less pigs to the multiplied by sixteen sows meanta considerable loss. We have listenedto men of wide reputation as hogbreeders ridicule the idea of a guardrail on the theory properly fitted sows need no attention at farrowing time,that the natural sow mother will goa-jvay into the woods and heap up apile of leaves and come home in afew days with a 100 per cent litte
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