Animal category: Pigs

Animal welfare monitoring by real-time physiological signals

Joosen, Pieter; Norton, Tomas; Marchant-Forde, Jeremy; Berckmans, Daniel

Published in 2019

Study to test whether real-time monitoring of the metabolic energy balance offers a route to continuous monitoring of the mental state of active pigs in real time.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Precision farming

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Pig elimination behavior - A review

Heidi Mai-Lis Andersen, Anne Grete Kongsted, Malene Jakobsen

Published in 2020

Review of the elimination behaviours of pigs and their relationships with their on-farm environment, with the ultimate aim of encouraging pigs to dispose of their waste in dedicated areas. An environmental and animal welfare issue.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Societal issues, Environment, Housing, Living environment, Pollution

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Social genetic effects in livestock: Current status and future avenues of research

Piter Bijma

Published in 2020

Review of the social genetic effect, i.e. the effect of an individual animal's genotype on the phenotypic traits of its social partners.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Precision farming, Welfare indicators

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Effect of pen design on tail biting and tail-directed behaviour of finishing pigs with intact tails

P. Brandt, F. Hakansson, T. Jensen, M. B. F. Nielsen, H. P. Lahrmann, C. F. Hansen, B. Forkman

Published in 2020

Comparison of pig behaviour and prevalence of tail biting in finishing pigs with intact tails housed in two different types of pens in commercial production conditions in Denmark.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Pain, Societal issues, Risk management, Housing, Stress, Livestock farming system

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Enrichment use in finishing pigs and its relationship with damaging behaviours: Comparing three wood species and a rubber floor toy

Jen-Yun Chou, Rick B. D'Eath, Dale Andrew Sandercock, Keelin O'Driscoll

Published in 2020

Comparison of the effects of enrichment with three species of wood and a rubber floor toy in finishing pig farms, study of the relationship between toy use and harmful behaviours, and physiological and physical measures for stress and injury.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Pain, Societal issues, Enrichment, Housing, Living environment, Mutilation

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Precision livestock farming - Blueprint: When technology improves on-farm piglet welfare monitoring

Samaneh Azarpajouh, Julia Calderón Díaz, Hossein Taheri

Published in 2020

Article listing digital systems for assessing the welfare of lactating piglets.

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Precision farming, Societal issues, Welfare indicators

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Business benchmark on farm animal welfare 2019: "perfect storm" for accelerating food company action on farm animal welfare

Amanda Williams

Published in 2020

8th annual report on political commitment, performance and provision of information relating to animal welfare in 150 international agri-food companies.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships

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GroupHouseNet: four years of EU-wide collaboration on tail docking solutions

Irene Camerlink, Kristine Hov-Martinsen, Torunn Aasmundstad, Andrew Janczak and Bas Rodenburg

Published in 2020

Activity Review of the European COST programme "GroupHouseNet", aimed at reducing the incidence of harmful behaviour in animals kept in groups by refining genetic selection methods and developing breeding innovations to improve living conditions at the beginning and end of the animal's life.

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Pain, Societal issues, Enrichment, Stress, Livestock farming system

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Evaluation of pain and stress in three-week old piglets in relation to route of vaccine administration

Annalisa Scollo, Serena Minervini, Maria Costanza Galli, Alberto Cevidalli, Giacomo Bortoletto, Giusy Romano, Flaviana Gottardo

Published in 2020

Evaluation of the behavioural and physiological responses of piglets during vaccine administration, comparing intramuscular injection using a needle and intradermal injection without a needle.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Pain, Societal issues, Stress, Livestock farming system

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French Assemblée Nationale: written answer to Question No. 24499: Elevages porcins-castration-claquage-bien-être animal

Christophe Naegelen (UDI, Agir et Indépendants, Vosges); Answer: French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2020

Question concerning the end date for live castration of piglets and measures to support farmers in this transition.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Pain, Societal Issues, Mutilation, Stress

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