Animal Care
How Pigs are Raised
This booklet details how producers care for pigs from farrowing (birth) to shipping for processing, including information on different types of housing. (Also useful for older children/high school students.)
How Pigs are Raised
Pigs in Transit
This booklet describes how producers should care for pigs to prepare them for transport, as well as during transport, including truck conditions and human contact.
Pigs in Transit
Recommended Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Farm Animals: Pigs
This comprehensive resource is a Canadian Agri-Food Research Council guide for humane pig production practices, produced with the support of producer associations including Manitoba Pork Council.
Recommended Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Farm Animals: Pigs
Recommended Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Farm Animals: Pigs Addendum: Early Weaned Pigs
This is an addition to the Canadian Agri-Food Research Council guide for humane pig production practices, also produced with the support of producer associations including Manitoba Pork Council.
Recommended Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Farm Animals: Pigs Addendum: Early Weaned Pigs
Recommended Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Farm Animals: Transportation
This resource, produced by the Canadian Agri-Food Research Council, with the support of producer associations including Manitoba Pork Council, addresses the proper ways to care for various types of farm animals in preparation for and during transportation. There is a section that deals specifically with pigs.
Recommended Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Farm Animals: Transportation