Litters are evened up for size with small pigs being moved to younger sows. The bigger pigs are put onto older sows. Feed levels are kept to a level where troughs are cleaned up by mid morning and sows are up looking for feed in the afternoon. Shredded paper provides a comfortable bed for the pigs,helps keep them away from the sow and helps prevent splay legs. To prevent two day scour in the farrowing house feed back is practised in the dry sow house.
Supplementary heat is provided by electric heat pads.
A chequered steel plate helps protect the slatted plastic flooring. There are no nipple drinkers in the farrowing pens. Individual troughs are filled using a 5 gallon drum. Creep is introduced when the pigs are 15 days old.