Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of pigs / edited by Sandra Edwards.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edwards, Sandra, editor.

Series:

Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (595 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

With growing concern from consumers and regulatory agencies about the welfare of farmed animals such as pigs, the livestock sector must assess how animal welfare can be improved whilst ensuring livestock production remains economically and environmentally sustainable. Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of pigs is a comprehensive review of key research in this important area. This collection reviews genetic and developmental factors affecting pig behaviour and current welfare issues at different production stages, as well as specific issues such as tail biting and castration. The book concludes with an assessment of ways to measure welfare, including techniques to monitor pig behaviour. With its distinguished editor and international team of expert authors, Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of pigs will be a standard text for university researchers in pig/swine and veterinary science as well as ethology. It will also be a key reference for government and other agencies involved in regulating and monitoring farm animal welfare, as well as farmers and companies involved in pig production.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Series list

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1 Determinants of behaviour

1 Advances in understanding the genetics of pig behaviour

1 Introduction

2 Maternal behaviour

3 Feeding behaviour and the consequences of selection for feed efficiency

4 Tail biting

5 Aggressive behaviour between pigs

6 Direct and social effects on growth rate and reproduction traits

7 Characteristics of pigs with high social breeding values for growth rate

8 Conclusion and future trends

9 Where to look for further information

10 Personal communications

11 References

2 Developmental influences on pig behaviour

2 Prenatal environmental effects on development of pig behaviour

3 Environmental effects during the early postnatal period on the development of behaviour

4 Conclusions

5 Future trends in research

6 Where to look for further information

7 References

Part 2 Management of behaviour in different production stages

3 Optimising pig welfare in breeding and gestation

2 Breeding and gestation of gilts and sows

3 Animal management

4 Conclusion and future trends

5 Where to look for further information

6 References

4 Optimising sow and piglet welfare during farrowing and lactation

2 Welfare challenges during farrowing and lactation

3 Mitigating welfare challenges

5 Optimising pig welfare at the weaning and nursery stage

2 Minimising the impact of weaning

3 Optimised management: the human key factor

4 Conclusion

7 References.

6 Optimizing pig welfare in the growing and finishing stage

2 Pig behavioral issues that impact pig welfare

3 Production systems

4 Group size

5 Living conditions in indoor systems

6 Animal health and animal care

7 Conclusion and future trends in research

8 Where to look for further information

9 References

7 Optimising pig welfare during transport, lairage and slaughter

2 Welfare during transport

3 Welfare in lairage

4 Welfare during stunning and slaughter

5 Animal welfare audit protocols

6 Conclusion and future trends

7 Where to look for further information

8 References

Part 3 Current welfare issues

8 Evidence of pain in piglets subjected to invasive management procedures

2 The why and how of invasive management procedures in piglets

3 Definition and mechanisms of pain

4 Neural evidence of pain due to invasive management procedures in piglets

5 Hormonal and metabolic evidence of pain due to invasive management procedures in piglets

6 Behavioural evidence of pain due to invasive management procedures in piglets

7 Conclusion and future trends

8 Summary

10 References

9 Alternatives to castration of pigs

2 Entire male production

3 Immunocastration

4 Sex sorting of semen

5 Case study

10 Understanding and preventing tail biting in pigs

2 The prevalence and economic importance of the problem

3 Do we have a mechanistic understanding of tail biting?

4 Risk factors for the occurrence of tail biting

5 Ethical considerations associated with tail biting

6 Managing pigs without tail biting.

7 Intervention measures for a tail biting outbreak

8 Conclusions

9 Future trends in research

10 Where to look for further information

11 The role of enrichment in optimizing pig behaviour and welfare

2 Environmental enrichment and animal welfare

3 The role of environmental enrichment in pig behaviour and welfare

4 Evaluating the biological relevance of different types of enrichment

5 Conclusions

Part 4 Assessment of welfare states

12 Physiological and behavioral responses to disease in pigs

2 Physiological responses to disease

3 Behavioral responses to disease

4 Strategies for disease mitigation

5 Conclusion

6 Future trends in research

13 Assessing emotions in pigs: determining negative and positive mental states

2 Behavioural indicators of emotion

3 Cognitive indicators of emotion in pigs

4 Neurophysiological indicators of emotion in pigs

5 Summary and future trends

14 Welfare assessment of pigs

2 Welfare comparisons and frameworks

3 Input and output-related welfare measures

4 Required properties for welfare measures: validity, repeatability and feasibility

5 Feeding-related welfare indicators

6 Housing-related welfare indicators

7 Health- and pain-related welfare indicators

8 Behavioural welfare indicators

9 General indicators of poor and positive welfare

10 Future trends

11 Where to look for further information

12 References

15 Advances in technologies for monitoring pig welfare

2 Good feeding

3 Good housing

4 Good health

5 Appropriate behaviour.

6 Legal and ethical considerations

7 Sensor data management and modelling

8 Case study

9 Conclusion

10 Future trends in research

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78676-445-8

1-003-04822-6

1-78676-446-6

9781003048220

OCLC:

1236265482