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 [...]
The “pig-vision Campaign
The “pig-vision” campaign starts today. The campaign is called “pig-vision” because we want to take a closer look at the life of a pig, who, in modern society, is seen, first and foremost as livestock. To find out more about how a pig lives, we will accompany one, let’s call him X15. From his birth, through the different [...]
