
Why treating only small piglets limits performance
Explore the mEATquality project´s practical collection of
6 farmer focused training videos
10 Practice Abstracts: housing systems, feeding, handling, and stress reduction.
The mEATquality Sustainability App
All materials are available in 7 languages
Litter size isn’t only about the sow
New PIC analysis shows the AI boar (“service sire”) can have a small but measurable impact on piglets born alive—an effect that becomes usable with big, well-corrected datasets. Using ~80,000 litters, ~40,000 sows and ~1,600 boars (2020–2024), PIC found up to ~2% differences in liveborn piglets linked to sire lines—small, but valuable when applied systematically in breeding.
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