Another way of looking at it
When a pig’s life is not totally mechanised to meet the ends of mass production, he or she lives in close-knit groups where the main female has the say. Male pigs usually live as loners after their puberty. When they have proved themselves to their adversaries they gain access to females. The females however, are [...]
Young Pigs Video
What will life be like for X15? In around three weeks we will start to find out, when our two piglets are born. Until then, we bring you images of what it’s like in another typical Austrian pig farm.
X15 is alive – a industrialised procedure
X15 is a male piglet. His existence began on 2.3.09 as his mother was artificially inseminated. In pig breeding farms sows are used as reproductive machines. Their natural cycles are controlled on mass by hormone injection which ensure the timing of their fertility and which are used as little as 4 to 7 days after her [...]
The Timeline
On our website you will find a timeline. You will see that it has not changed yet, that’s because the piglets, whose lives we want to follow, haven’t been born yet. At the moment you can see pictures of how people imagine the life of a pig, the timing of these stages is real enough, but [...]
