Pork

Posieux a pig while food

Agroscope focuses on meat quality, feeding, animal-friendly housing systems and animal health as top priorities, with the aim of developing the most important production-engineering and environmental parameters as well as problem-solving approaches for pig production, and continuously updating the feeding recommendations.

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Latest News and Further Information

Video Schweine

Vanessa de Jesus and her research project

Can feeding maize silage to piglets during weaning support them through this highly stressful period and improve their welfare?

CapSa-Schweine

CapSa – a Pill for Studying the Gut Microbiome –YouTube

Agroscope researchers have developed a capsule that can take a gut sample unobtrusively from a live pig. This animal-friendly invention is a game-changer for microbiome research.

Gelbes Buch Umschlag

Feed Recommendations for Pigs

Training-and-advice basics of pig feeding in Switzerland