Eye On Europe: Danes find that two-step nursing gives more live pigs weaned

Most at risk in large litters are the smallest members. Danish research suggests that moving them to a second litter after a few hours helps
by NORMAN DUNN

There’s probably not a country in the world looking so hard for the best ways of fostering young piglets than Denmark. This is because Danish sows farrow from 12 to 13 liveborn piglets on average per litter and this performance is increasing steadily by 0.3 piglets every year.

Better Pork - December 2007