On farm monitoring of pig welfare: COST ACTION 846 Working group 2: On farm monitoring of welfare Subworking group: Pigs PDF
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O n f a r m m o n i t o r i n g o f p i g w e l f a r e edited by: A. Velarde and R. Geers On farm monitoring of pig welfare O n f a r m m o n i t o r i n g o f p i g w e l f a r e COST ACTION 846 Working group 2: On farm monitoring of welfare Subworking group: Pigs edited by: A. Velarde R. Geers WWaaggeenniinnggeenn AAccaaddeemmiicc PPPP uuuu bbbbb llll iiii ssssss hhhh eeeeee rrrr ssssss This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned. Nothing from this publication may be translated, reproduced, stored in a computerised system or published in any form or in any manner, including electronic, mechanical, reprographic or photographic, without prior written permission from the publisher, Wageningen Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 220, 6700 AE Wageningen, ISBN: 978-90-8686-025-8 the Netherlands, e-ISBN: 978-90-8686-591-8 www.WageningenAcademic.com DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-591-8 The individual contributions in this publication and any liabilities arising from them remain First published, 2007 the responsibility of the authors. The publisher is not responsible for possible © Wageningen Academic Publishers damages, which could be a result of content The Netherlands, 2007 derived from this publication. Table of contents 1. General introduction 11 Rony Geers 2. Lying behaviour (location, posture and duration) 19 Rony Geers 3. Lying down and standing up behaviour 25 Bernhard Hörning 4. Fear of humans 35 Hans Spoolder 5. Stereotypies 41 Frank Tuyttens 6. Apathy 47 Françoise Wemelsfelder 7. Agonistic behaviour 53 Antonio Velarde 8. Tail biting, ear biting and cannibalism 57 Marc Bracke 9. Vulva biting 65 Marc Bracke 10. Surgical interventions 71 Valerie Courboulay 11. Bursitis 75 Valerie Courboulay 12. Skin lesions 79 Antonio Velarde 13. Lameness 85 Antonio Velarde 14. Mortality 91 Frank Tuyttens On farm monitoring of pig welfare 7 15. Illness status 101 Kamara Scott, Sandra A. Edwards, Veerle Hautekiet and Liesbet Van Steenbergen 16. Reproduction problems 107 Sandra A. Edwards 17. Body condition score 111 Valerie Courboulay 18. Cleanliness 117 Valerie Courboulay 19. Space allowance 121 Bernhard Hörning 20. Quality, type and amount of bedding 127 Bernhard Hörning 21. Floor type 135 Bernhard Hörning 22. Recreational devices 141 Marc Bracke 23. Environmental temperature 147 Rony Geers 24. Other environmental parameters 153 Rony Geers 25. Quality of stockpersonship 159 Susanne Waiblinger and Hans Spoolder 26. Remote monitoring 167 Rony Geers 27. Welfare parameters related to welfare needs 177 Marc Bracke 28. Guidelines to develop a monitoring tool for on farm application 181 29. Acknowledgement to COST Action 846 189 Index 203 8 On farm monitoring of pig welfare
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