Content related to the topic: environment

24 October 2023

Uniformity in finished pigs

Guidance on how to reduce the variation in size between finisher pigs.

13 August 2020

Weaning and small pig management

Guidance on weaning, including creep feeding and small pig management

17 September 2020

Monitoring farrowing and piglet behaviour

Guidance on monitoring farrowing and piglet behaviour

23 December 2020

Piglet fostering

Guidance on indoor piglet management

17 September 2020

Creep training

Creep areas provide the right environment for piglets and training them to use this area will give them a good start in life.

8 July 2020

Glossary of common terms used in pig nutrition

8 May 2024

Feeding growing and finishing pigs

Guidance on the nutritional requirements of growing and finishing pigs

8 July 2020

Nutrition for gilt rearing

Guidance on the nutritional requirements of gilts

29 May 2020

Dry weather case study - Ian Norbury

The weather is certainly throwing some challenges our way this year and the biggest impact is the reduced grass growth.

29 May 2020

Dry weather case study - Sam Jones

We have gone from the wettest February to the driest April and May, and it doesn’t look as though there is rain coming anytime soon.

24 April 2026

Improving the lifetime performance of ewes

Challenge Sheep is a research project to develop best practice for managing replacement ewes and understand the impact of the rearing phase on a ewe’s lifetime performance.

22 May 2024

Worming advice from Challenge Sheep farmer Rob Hawke

First generation farmers Rob and Anna Hawke joined the AHDB Beef & Lamb-funded project, Challenge Sheep, when it began in 2017.