Environmental Enrichment of Pigs

Buch | Softcover

174 Seiten

2020
MDPI (Verlag)
978-3-03928-078-0 (ISBN)

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Pigs have a strong motivation to explore and root. In conventional pig husbandry systems, this need is difficult to fulfil, unless adequate enrichment materials are provided. This book summarises how enrichment strategies for pigs have evolved over the last few decades in different countries and provides a vast array of possibilities to enhance the exploratory needs of pigs. The role of enrichment material on avoidance of tail biting outbreaks or as an element triggering positive emotions in pigs is also discussed.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.02.2020
Verlagsort	Basel
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	Aggression • Animal welfare • Barriers to implementation • Behaviour • Bite-Rite • China • Chromogranin-A • Enrichment • enrichment material • enrichment materials • environmental enrichment • EU • EU Policy • farming • fattening pig • fattening pigs • garlic oil • Habituation • lactate • meat quality • Mutilations • N/A • negative emotions • olfactory • Performance • Pig • pig assessment • pig behavior • pig directive • Pigs • Positive Emotions • post-weaning • Rope • skin lesions • slatted system • Social interactions • Social Status • sows • Straw • Swine • tail biting • tail biting outbreak • tail damage • tail docking • tail injury • USA • veterinarian • weaners • welfare
ISBN-10	3-03928-078-3 / 3039280783
ISBN-13	978-3-03928-078-0 / 9783039280780
Zustand	Neuware