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The Welfare of Pigs

A Seminar in the EEC Programme of Coordination of Research on Animal Welfare held in Brussels, November 25–26, 1980

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  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. W. Sybesma

    1. Research Institute for Animal Husbandry ‘Schoonoord’, Zeist, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine (CTVM, volume 11)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  3. Behavioural and Physiological Needs of Pigs in General II. Parameters for Assessing Welfare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Can Physiological Criteria be Used to Assess Welfare in Pigs?

      • R. Dantzer, P. Mormède
      Pages 53-74

    3. Parameters for Assessing Welfare, Ethological Criteria

      • Doris Buchenauer
      Pages 75-94

    4. Losses Due to Inheritance and Housing as Criteria for the Welfare of Pigs

      • J. Unshelm
      Pages 95-111

    5. The Development of A Blood Profile for Stress Assessment

      • B. W. Moss
      Pages 112-131

  4. Comparative Data Regarding Welfare in Present Husbandry Systems, I. I. Fattening Pigs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Observations on the Effects of Stocking Rate on the Performance of Gilts and Boars to Bacon Weight

      • T. J. Hanrahan
      Pages 141-151

    3. Characteristics of Pig Fattening Systems Involving Partially Slatted Floors

      • A. T. Smith
      Pages 152-170

    4. Open Front Piggeries with and Without Straw

      • P. Koomans
      Pages 171-181

  5. Comparative Data Regarding Welfare in Present Husbandry Systems, I. 2. Piglets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Welfare of Piglets in Flatdeck-Cages

      • G. van Putten
      Pages 185-197

    3. Animal Well-Being and Housing Systems for Piglets

      • R. G. Buré
      Pages 198-209

    4. Short Communication

      • W. Sybesma
      Pages 210-210

    5. Danish Studies on Behaviour of Early Weaned Piglets: Preliminary Results

      • Mette Schmidt, H. C. Adler
      Pages 211-225
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In Europe, at the present time, there is a growing concern about the welfare of animals kept for production purpose. Technical advancements make it possible to produce more and more efficiently. However, the basic requirements for animal well-being are not always taken into account, partly because they need to be defined more precisely in order to be able to implement them. In the meeting on the welfare of pigs, organised under the supervision of the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate General for Agriculture, Division for the Coordination of Agricultural Research, scientists from all over Western Europe brought together relevant experimental data of physiological, veterinary, ethological and economic origin for a multidisciplinary discussion on this subject. The results of research studies were also reviewed in the light of possible practical applications and future research. The meeting was a fruitful first step in bringing together different opinions in order to arrive at a universally acceptable common solution for modern pig production. W. Sybesma SESSION I BEHAVIOURAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS OF PIGS IN GENERAL I. BASIC NEEDS Chairman: J.P. Signoret BEHAVIOURAL AND REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES IN WILD FORMS OF Sus scrota (EUROPEAN WILD BOAR AND FERAL PIGS) R. Mauget Centre d'Etudes Biologiques des Animaux Sauvages, 79360 Beauvoir, France.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Research Institute for Animal Husbandry ‘Schoonoord’, Zeist, The Netherlands

    W. Sybesma

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Welfare of Pigs

  • Book Subtitle: A Seminar in the EEC Programme of Coordination of Research on Animal Welfare held in Brussels, November 25–26, 1980

  • Editors: W. Sybesma

  • Series Title: Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9574-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1981

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-9574-4Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 334

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general

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