On a chilly afternoon in early March, two pigs escaped from their pen at Heidi’s Haven, an animal rescue in Williamstown.

The controversial practice of farrowing crates is used after sows give give birth to restrict movement with the 'severe' form of animal cruelty impacting 200,000 pregnant pigs each year ...

Glacier FarmMedia — Canada’s national pig code is getting an update. ‘We’ve launched the code of practice with the National Farm Animal Care Council,” said Stephen Heckbert, executive director of the ...

The code that sets Canada’s standards care and handling of pigs is up for review, a process expected to be compete by 2028.

Pigs, intelligent and social creatures, possess a strong maternal instinct. In the wild, a pregnant pig will walk several miles to carefully select the perfect spot to build a nest for her ...

A Michigan animal sanctuary owner alleged state authorities were inhumane when they culled her birds. She changed the state's H5N1 depopulation code.

How to feed, water and house a shipment of 100 highly valuable pedigree pigs unexpectedly diverted to Bermuda on a flight was just part of the problem confronted by the Government’s chief ...

Prop 12 prohibits the inherently cruel practice of keeping pigs in gestation crates.

Issues of animal welfare, small family farms, pricing and ethics have all come to the forefront in light of recent pushes to end gestation crate use.