Pig

The effect of straw on the behaviour and performance of growing pigs kept in a novel housing system

Straw bedding provides a number of functions which affect the behaviour and welfare of pigs including comfort, recreation and diet. Straw provides a suitable opportunity for pigs to forage, promotes activity and reduces abnormal behaviours such as apathy, stereotypies and...

Year Published: 1993Animal Type: Pig

Citation: Arey, D. S. 1993. The effect of straw on the behaviour and performance of growing pigs kept in a novel housing system. In: Livestock Environment: Fourth International Symposium. Collins, E. , Boon, C. (eds), 491-494. Scottish Agricultural College, Aberdeen, UK.

Effect of straw on the behaviour and performance of growing pigs in Straw-Flow pens

Year Published: 1993Animal Type: Pig

Citation: Arey, D. S. 1993. Effect of straw on the behaviour and performance of growing pigs in Straw-Flow pens. Farm Building Progress 112, 24-25.

The effect of bedding on the behaviour and welfare of pigs

Straw bedding provides a number of functions which affect the behaviour and welfare of pigs including comfort, recreation and diet. Straw bedding reduces physical discomfort in pigs at all stages; it allows the performance of nest building behaviour in sows...

Year Published: 1993Animal Type: Pig

Citation: Arey, D. S. 1993. The effect of bedding on the behaviour and welfare of pigs. Animal Welfare 2, 235-246.

The effect of feeding regime and the provision of a foraging substrate on the development of behaviours in group-housed sows

The inability to appropriately express this [foraging] behaviour under certain conditions may result in the development of abnormal oral activities. Gilts utilised straw as a foraging substrate instead of directing oral activities at other components of the pen.

Year Published: 1994Animal Type: Pig

Citation: Burbidge, J. A., Spoolder, H. A. M., Lawrence, A. B. et al. 1994. The effect of feeding regime and the provision of a foraging substrate on the development of behaviours in group-housed sows. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 40, 72 (Abstract).

Behavioural diversity as a measure of welfare: a study in pigs

As expected, overall behavioural diversity (69 ethogram elements) was highest in the straw-bedded pen with the enriched outside yard and lowest in the strawless pen. .. Interestingly, the pigs in the strawless pen did not compensate for their poor diversity...

Year Published: 1994Animal Type: Pig

Citation: Hirt, H., Wechsler, B. 1994. Behavioural diversity as a measure of welfare: a study in pigs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 40, 82-83 (Abstract).

Non-nutritive chewing by pigs: Implications for tail-biting and behavioral enrichment

Year Published: 1994Topics: Abnormal/Problematic Behavior, Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Pig

Citation: Feddes, J. J. R., Fraser, D. 1994. Non-nutritive chewing by pigs: Implications for tail-biting and behavioral enrichment. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers [ASAE] 37, 947-950.

The Accommodation of Laboratory Animals in Accordance with Animal Welfare Requirements: Minipigs

Berlin Workshop' recommendations for the adequate housing of minipigs

Year Published: 1994Animal Type: Pig

Citation: Scharman, W., Militzer, K., Wechsler, B. 1994. Minipigs. In: The Accommodation of Laboratory Animals in Accordance With Animal Welfare Requirements. Proceedings of an International Workshop Held at the Bundesgesundheitsamt, Berlin [The Berlin Workshop]. O'Donoghue, P. N. (ed), 47-52. Bundesministerium f?r Ern?hrung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten, Bonn, Germany.

The development of feeding and investigatory behaviour in free-ranging domestic pigs during their first 18 weeks of life

The development of feeding and investigatory behaviour was investigated in a 2-year study in groups of domestic pigs living under free-range conditions. No nibbling and sucking littermates or bellynosing was observed at any time. It can be concluded that nibbling...

Year Published: 1994Animal Type: Pig

Citation: Petersen, V. 1994. The development of feeding and investigatory behaviour in free-ranging domestic pigs during their first 18 weeks of life. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 42, 87-98.

Farm animal welfare

The goal of this paper is to expand upon the general principle of environmental enrichment for farm animals and to present some ideas for enrichment based on current research.

Year Published: 1994Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Cattle, Chicken, Equine, Goat, Pig, Sheep

Citation: Newberry, R. C. 1994. Farm animal welfare. In: CCAC 1994 Western Regional Workshop. Canadian Council on Animal Care [CCAC] 21-28. Canadian Council on Animal Care, Ottawa, Canada.

Environmental enrichment in flatdeck accomodation for exploratory behaviour in early-weaned piglets

Enrichment [rubber glove, rubber dog toy, strip of plastic suspended in the pen] increased normal exploratory behaviours while reducing the incidence of disturbed manipulative behaviours [oral manipulation of pen mates] and decreasing fear responses to people.

Year Published: 1994Topics: Abnormal/Problematic Behavior, Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Pig

Citation: Moore, E. A., Broom, D. M., Simmins, P. H. 1994. Environmental enrichment in flatdeck accomodation for exploratory behaviour in early-weaned piglets. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 41, 277-278 (Abstract).