The Welfare of Pigs: A Seminar in the EEC Programme of Coordination of Research on Animal Welfare held in Brussels, November 25-26, 1980 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9401195757 ISBN 13: 9789401195751

Publisher: Springer, 2014

Synopsis

BEHAVIOURAL AND REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES IN WILD FORMS OF Sus scrofa (EUROPEAN WILD BOAR AND FERAL PIGS).- Discussion.- Influence of Fixation on the Behaviour of Sows.- Discussion.- Physiology and Behaviour of Young Pigs in Relation to the Environment.- Discussion.- Animal Welfare in Agriculture - A Challenge for the Ethology.- Can Physiological Criteria be Used to Assess Welfare in Pigs?.- Discussion.- Parameters for Assessing Welfare, Ethological Criteria.- Discussion.- Losses Due to Inheritance and Housing as Criteria for the Welfare of Pigs.- Discussion.- The Development of a Blood Profile for Stress Assessment.- Discussion.- Observations on the Effects of Stocking Rate on the Performance of Gilts and Boars to Bacon Weight.- Discussion.- Characteristics of Pig Fattening Systems Involving Partially Slatted Floors.- Discussion.- Open Front Piggeries with and without Straw.- Discussion.- Welfare of Piglets in Flatdeck Cages.- Discussion.- Animal Well-Being and Housing Systems for Piglets.- Discussion.- Short Communication.- Danish Studies on Behaviour of Early Weaned Piglets: Preliminary Results.- Discussion.- Exogenous Stimuli and Reproduction of the Sow.- Discussion.- Some Aspects of Sow Health and Housing.- Discussion.- The Impact of the Farrowing Pen on the Sow and Her Piglets.- Discussion.- Welfare and the Housing of the Sow and Suckling Pigs.- Discussion.- Summing Up and Conclusions.- List of Participants.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9401195757
• ISBN 13: 9789401195751
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Sybesma W