Hoop housing for feeder pigs offers a welfare-friendly environment compared to a nonbedded confinement system (2000)

Lay, D., Haussmann, M. F., Daniels, M. J.

Abstract

Group-housed pigs kept in an enriched environment, i.e., bedding performed fewer abnormal behaviors, had lower plasma cortisol concentrations in response to stress [handling], had a greater rate of play behaviour, and fewer leg injuries than pigs kept in a barren, i.e., nonbedded confinement system.