Activities on the farm are the same each week of the year:

• Mating
• Farrowing
• Weaning
• Selection
• On and off testing of pigs
• Pressure washing
• Moving pigs
• Loading pigs for sale
• Building and equipment maintenance as required

From mating to farrowing (giving birth) takes 116 days.

The piglets are weaned 24 days later.

The sow then has 5 days before she is mated again.

High levels of stockmanship, welfare and housing are considered by JSR to be the vital elements for humane animal production and provide freedom from:

• Hunger and thirst
• Discomfort or pain
• Injury or disease
• Fear and stress
• Abnormal behaviour