Ayrshire Farm Neglect - inappropriate mixing

Mixing breeding and market pigs for q week before the market pigs go to slaughter rather than fix the fence of the breeding group.

Never unnecessarily mix pigs.

These much older much larger potential breeding gilts beat the shit out of the market pigs. These pigs were terrorized for a week before they went to slaughter. Why? Staff was too lazy to fix the fence of the breeding group so moved them in with the market pigs.

This is neglect, unconscionable, bad for the meat and bad financially as they immediately stop putting weight on when they are under so much stress.

When pigs fight there is little you can do. Mixing them unnecessarily is unethical.

This was immediately brought to the large livestock managers attention. She didn't give a shit.
I did my best to encourage one group to go in a hut on one side of the field and another group in a hut around the barn and feed them in separate groups for the week.

The gilts kicked the market pigs out of their hut.

There was mass confusion, stress, fighting etc. All could have been avoided with a hour of fence checking and reinforcing.