Temple Grandin answered questions about sow gestation stalls during her appearance in Brandon. The following is a sample of her thoughts on the topic:
“One thing I’m going to say, let’s not build any new gestation stall houses. I think that would be really stupid.”
“You can’t go into things too fast but there is a point where these (pig) barns are going to rust out.”
On open housing and pig genetics:
“If you have a pig that bites privates, you need to have a sow stall jail. She gets put in there and let her have her pigs. As soon as she’s weaned her pigs, she’s sausage. Then all of her pigs are going to go to Maple Leaf (slaughter plant)…. You want to get those mean genetics out of the gene pool.”
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“We are going to have to make sure we have the right genetics because there are some pigs that don’t play well with others.”
On open housing systems:
“People have asked me, what’s your favourite group housing system? I’ve backed off from discussing that because I want to let the industry have an opportunity to innovate.”
“Things evolve. I’ve been in the equipment business for 35 years and equipment evolves. It never ceases to amaze me the things that people come up with.”
