Page 10 of articles about behaviour-welfare in Abstracts

3 hours lairage was insufficient to fully acclimatize pigs, while 12 hours resulted in lower stress measurements.

The increase in dieterary fiber it is not enough to reduce stereotypic behaviour in static group housed sows.

Replacing starch by dietary fibre changes plasma metabolites profile in gestating sows.

Different alternatives for surgical castration without anaesthesia were performed on 20 farms to evaluate the effect on boar taint and carcass quality.

This study aimed at understanding the effects of testicular hormones on immunity and stress reactivity in pigs.

Creep feed initiated from day 5 and 10 reduce diarrhea scores in piglets and the estrus interval in sows.

One of the key components of survival in alternative, loose-housed farrowing systems is maternal behaviour and understanding the characteristics of sows that influence survival in such environments should be an essential component when developing new breeding indices.

This study aims to quantify the development of tail-biting behaviour at pen and individual piglet level, before and after the first visible tail damage.

Tryptophan supplementation does not reduce aggression in sows at mixing, but increases litter size at farrowing.

Investigative, social-play and conflict behaviors may be effective indexes of the welfare level of piglets, especially investigative and conflict behaviors.

Since feed-back from a functional nest may improve maternal behaviour and thus piglet survival we investigated if access to a covered area and ad libitum access to straw would improve maternal behaviour of importance for piglet survival.

Osteochondrosis prevalence can be reduced by applying deep litter floors with extra space allowance and/or restricted feeding in fattening pigs.

To quantify the combined effect of housing conditions and environmental enrichment on the behaviour and performance of pigs, a meta-analysis was performed using information from 45 experiments in 42 published manuscripts.

The objective of this study was to determine if piglet performance could be improved by using analgesia during castration.

The aim of the study was to investigate agonistic behaviour of pigs after regrouping pigs under commercial sow farm conditions. The behavioural patterns were observed over a 48-h period, directly after weaning (PIG-28; n = 647) and 40 days later (growing pigs, PIG-68; n = 224).

Results show that pigs split into small subgroups to forage and maintained this division during daylight rests, however animals regrouped to rest during the night in a common area and behaved as a united flock.