X15 transferred from weaning to rearing

After the first three to four weeks with their mother, the pigs stay for two more months in the so called weaning. After that they are transferred to rearing and determined to be carried to the slaughterhouse and finally slaughtered four to five months later.

The rearing

The longest part of a pig’s life consists of eating and growing. The modern intensive pig farm offers nothing more for these highly sensitive creatures. What do pigs do for months on end, locked up in sheds often living over their own excrement, with a far better developed sense of smell than our own? We’ll [...]