Animal category: Pigs

Arrêt de la coupe des queues des porcelets, une équation difficilement maîtrisable

Nicolas Villain, Yannick Ramonet

Published in 2020

This article describes a trial to establish the impacts of the cessation of tail docking on performance and tail biting on a pig farm.

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Pain, Mutilation, Livestock farming system

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Germany: aid for the castration of piglets under anaesthetic

Professional Pig Community

Published in 2020

The German Minister of Food and Agriculture approved the "Decree on the administration of isoflurane anaesthesia during the castration of piglets by qualified persons". Financial support will be granted to pig farmers.

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Pain, Mutilation

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Transmammary delivery of firocoxib to piglets reduces stress and improves average daily gain after castration, tail docking, and teeth clipping

Johann F Coetzee, Pritam K Sidhu, Jon Seagen, Teresa Schieber, Katie Kleinhenz, Michael D Kleinhenz, Larry W Wulf, Vickie L Cooper, Reza Mazloom, Majid Jaberi-Douraki, Kelly Lechtenberg

Published in 2020

A test of the effect of intramammary administration of the anti-inflammatory drug firocoxib in sows on stress and piglet production during painful manipulations such as tail docking, castration, teeth cutting.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Pain, Welfare indicators, Mutilation, Stress, Livestock farming system

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Evidence of Pain, Stress, and Fear of Humans During Tail Docking and the Next Four Weeks in Piglets (Sus scrofa domesticus)

Céline Tallet, Marine Rakotomahandry, Sabine Herlemont and Armelle Prunier

Published in 2019

Study of the impacts of tail docking in piglets on behavioural indicators of pain and stress and on Human-animal relationships.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Pain, Welfare indicators, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Stress

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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

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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

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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, Livestock farming system

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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

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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

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