Pigs sleep and rest a lot. Afterwards and in between, they have distinct, active needs. In normal pig farming systems, they cannot live out these needs, or only to a limited extent – very boring for the pigs, indeed sad.
Especially young pigs, and all fattening pigs are young pigs, are extremely interested in their environment, downright curious and brash. And they like to dig in the ground, they play, move intensively, run for pure joy, wallow.
That is why the Wiesenschwein pig system offers the pigs an extremely varied daily routine, an attractive habitat to live out their needs and species-appropriate feeding. In addition to feeding at the trough, they can also forage for themselves – in the burrowing substrate in the “forest floor” or they simply eat grass in the meadow. Yes, this is variety.