Animal category: Porcines

Effects of Dietary Fiber Sources during Gestation on Stress Status, Abnormal Behaviors and Reproductive Performance of Sows

Shuangbo Huang, Jianfu Wei, Haoyuan Yu, Xiangyu Hao, Jianjun Zuo, Chengquan Tan, Jinping Deng

Published in 2020

Evaluation of the effects of resistant starch and fermented soyanimal welfaren fibre on the reproductive performance and stress status of sows

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Stress

Go to document

Animal personality in the management and welfare of pigs

Carly I. O'Malley, Simon P.Turner, Richard B.D'Eath, Juan P.Steibel, Ronald O.Bates, Catherine W.Ernst, Janice M.Siegford

Published in 2019

Preview: “A total of 83 articles studying the relationships between pig personality, management and welfare were reviewed. A lack of consistency in terminology and methodology makes comparisons difficult. Studies have found links between personality, behavioral, and physiological traits. A framework is needed to incorporate pig personality into management and welfare."

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Vocalisation

Go to document

Influence of Housing Conditions on Reliability of Immunocastration and Consequences for Growth Performance of Male Pigs

Kevin Kress, Ulrike Weiler, Sonja Schmucker, Marjeta Čandek-Potokar, Milka Vrecl, Gregor Fazarinc, Martin Škrlep, Nina Batorek-Lukač, Volker Stefanski

Published in 2019

Evaluation of the influence of three sorts of housing conditions (enriched, standard and repeated social mixing) on the immune response of boars, immunocastrated pigs and castrated pigs

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Housing, Mutilation, Breeding and rearing systems

Go to document

Economic foundations for the use of biotechnology to improve farm animal welfare

Danielle Ufer, David L.Ortega, Christopher A.Wolf

Published in 2019

Economic reasons, challenges and opportunities for consumer acceptance of biotechnological applications in animal welfare with particular reference to gene editing techniques and the pig and dairy industries

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines, Porcines

Keywords: Societal issues

Go to document

Significant variation in the management of cull sows before transport for slaughter: results from a survey of Danish pig farmers

Mette S Herskin, Margit D Aaslyng, Inger Anneberg, Peter T Thomsen, Louisa M Gould, Karen Thodberg

Published in 2020

Investigation into the conditions under which cull sows are sent to slaughter in Denmark

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Stress, Transport

Go to document

Prévenir la douleur chez le porc

IFIP/Chambres Agriculture/INRA/ RMT animal welfare

Published in 2018

The document contains 16 practical fact sheets to help producers to master tail cutting techniques that reduce the pain experienced by the piglet and to carry out actions to mitigate the risk factors for tail biting, or prevent them arising

Document Types: Technical review

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Animal-based measurements, Anxiety, Pain, Enrichment, Welfare indicators, Housing, Memory, Mutilation, Neurogenesis, Fear, Cognitive processes, Resilience

Go to document

A European guide to establishing supply chains for whole or immunocastrated male pigs (English version)

European Commission

Published in 2018

Rearing: the guide includes reports of on-farm experiments to limit the occurrence of boar taint or to achieve 100% immuno-vaccination in males.
Abattoirs: the survey of methods to detect carcasses with boar taint indicates that the majority of supply chains involved use the "human nose" method, following rigorous protocols. Danish scientists report that an objective technique for quantifying malodorous molecules is being developed in an abattoir.
Curing: alternative uses for the small percentage of carcasses with boar taint are set out.
Changing practices: Last, examples of supply chains that have wholly or partially ceased surgical castration highlight the key role of retail sales personnel in promoting product chains that follow the specifications and in making consumers aware of them.

Document Types: Guides to Good Practice

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Societal issues, Risk management, Mutilation, Carcass quality, Processing

Go to document

Y a-t-il des alternatives à la castration chirurgicale des porcelets ?

A. PRUNIER, M. BONNEAU

Published in 2006

The review discusses alternatives to the surgical castration of male pigs in order to protect consumers from the unpleasantness of boar taint in meats but which do not require an anaesthetic.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Pain, Societal issues, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Mutilation, Carcass quality, Stress, Breeding and rearing systems

Go to document