Amazing news! Does anyone know what percent of pigs spend their in gestation crates? I’m able to find data on overall population numbers, but I can’t find what percent of them become pregnant.
In 2022, 8.5% of pigs farmed in the US, or 6.17 million, were classified as “breeders” [1]According to The Humane Society, roughly 70% of breeding pigs are kept in gestation crates [2]. This would mean that there were approximately 4.319 million pigs kept in gestation crates in 2022.
Amazing news! Does anyone know what percent of pigs spend their in gestation crates? I’m able to find data on overall population numbers, but I can’t find what percent of them become pregnant.
In 2022, 8.5% of pigs farmed in the US, or 6.17 million, were classified as “breeders” [1]According to The Humane Society, roughly 70% of breeding pigs are kept in gestation crates [2]. This would mean that there were approximately 4.319 million pigs kept in gestation crates in 2022.
https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/rj430453j/2v23x176m/jm215w193/hgpg0622.pdf
https://www.humanesociety.org/sites/default/files/docs/seaboard-prestage-gestation.pdf