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September 2021
A short-term music stimulus can reduce the stress response, whereas a long-term music stimulus can enhance immune responses in pigs.
Read more … Effects of music stimulus on pig behavior, cortisol level, and immunity
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July 2021
Certain pen modifications resulted in fewer tail damaged pigs and a better overall welfare assessment, despite a tendency for more tail-directed behaviour.
Read more … Effect of pen design on tail biting in finishing pigs with intact tails
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May 2019
It pays to understand the air flow inside pig houses. Knowing how air behaves inside buildings helps to be better able to apply a correct ventilation policy inside the pig houses. Pig management expert John Gadd explains more and introduces 7 ventilation rules.
Read more … 7 pig house ventilation rules and why they matter
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June 2018
This study has identified a simple method of increasing the cleanliness of pigs’ dedicated lying areas, which has important implications for improving the design of pig housing facilities and maximizing pig welfare.
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Tuesday 20 March 2018
One of the main tools to encourage the installation of extra lighting in the mating area is the data analysis, and more specifically the weaning-to-service interval.
The importance of lighting in the gestation area (especially where newly weaned sows and sows being mated are located) has been widely demonstrated and is known to all. The sows are particularly affected at the end of the year, in autumn, when the intensity and hours of light decrease progressively, which is commonly known as "decreasing photoperiod".
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January 11th, 2018
Matthew Rooda and Abraham Espinoza won the farm bureau's Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge for their startup SwineTech Inc., which aims to save piglets from being crushed by sows in pork farms.
Crushing is a recurring challenge for pork producers, an oddity of the domesticated species that largely has baffled researchers. Rooda's company has designed a device that listens for the distressed squeals of piglets in danger of getting squished. Then, it delivers a mild shock to get Mom moving.
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Caroline Kealey - Pigs 2022 Conference 2017
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