Australia s Great Southern Piggery (1998)

Free Range Pigs (1998) The Great Southern Piggery holds the largest free-range herd of pigs in the world. As livestock diseases plague much of the world, is this the future in maintaining healthy, productive animals? Subscribe to Journeyman here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures The farm was started by the man who heads Australia’s pearling industry, because he felt it was wrong to keep pigs cooped up inside. But he had foreseen the future of pig farming. Legislation in Europe and the UK will soon prohibit the tethering and total confinement of farm animals. It will greatly impact on pork production. Here, each sow is producing 20 piglets a year - a better yield than the intensive indoor, battery-style pig farming, which has dominated since the second world war. The pigs living outside are fitter, can breathe better and can give birth unassisted. The days of massive indoor piggeries may be numbered, not just from an animal welfare point of view, but also from the sheer cost of traditional methods. Farms adopting these new procedures show there is an art to pig production. The animals are healthy and the profits are good. For more information, visit https://www.journeyman.tv/film/428 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures ABC Australia– Ref. 0428