The welfare of growing pigs in five different production systems: Assessment of feeding and housing

Animal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 656-667

  Temple, D ^a,b   Courboulay, V ^c   Manteca, X ^b   Velarde, A ^a   Dalmau, A ^a  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Institut du Porc (IFIP)   (France)

Author keywords

animal welfare; causal factors; growing pig; housing systems

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; DIET; FRANCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPAIN; STANDARD; SWINE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; DIET; FRANCE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; SPAIN; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 84857885456     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731111001868     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Altman DG, Lausen B, Sauerbrei W and Schumacher M 1994. Dangers of using "optimal" cutpoints in the evaluation of prognostic factors. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 86, 829-835. (Pubitemid 2100935)
2. Aparicio Tovar MA and Vargas Giraldo JD 2006. Considerations on ethics and animal welfare in extensive pig production: breeding and fattening Iberian pigs. Livestock Science 103, 237-242. (Pubitemid 44345325)
3. Blokhuis HJ 2008. International cooperation in animal welfare: the Welfare Quality® project. Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 50, 1-5.
4. Botreau R, Veissier I, Butterworth A, Bracke MBM and Keeling LJ 2007. Definition of criteria for overall assessment of animal welfare. Animal Welfare 16, 225-228. (Pubitemid 46784241)
5. Capdeville J and Veissier I 2001. A method of assessing welfare in loose housed dairy cows at farm level, focusing on animal observations. Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 51, 62-68.
6. Courboulay V, Eugène A and Delarue E 2009. Welfare assessment in 82 pig farms: effect of animal age and floor type on behaviour and injuries in fattening pigs. Animal Welfare 18, 515-521.
7. Courboulay V, Bregeon A, Massabie P and Meunier-Salaün MC 2003. Incidence du type de sol (caillebotis partiel/caillebotis inté gral) et de la taille de la case sur le bien-être des porcs charcutiers. Journé es de la Recherche Porcine 35, 163-170.
8. Dohoo I, Martin W and Stryhn H 2009. Model-building strategies. In Veterinary epidemiological research (ed. I Dohoo, W Martin and H Stryhn), pp. 368-374. AVC Inc., Charlottetown, Price Edward Island, Canada.
9. Ekkel ED, Spoolder HAM, Hulsegge I and Hopster H 2003. Lying characteristics as determinants for space requirements in pigs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 80, 19-30. (Pubitemid 36035067)
10. Geers R, Goedseels V, Parduyns G and Vercruysse G 1986. The group postural behaviour of growing pigs in relation to air velocity, air and floor temperature. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 16, 353-362.
11. Geers R, Dellaert B, Goedseels V, Hoogerbrugge A, Vranken E, Maes F and Berckmans D 1989. An assessment of optimal air temperatures in pig houses by the quantification of behavioural and health-related problems. Animal Production 48, 571-578.
12. Gillman CE, KilBride AL, Ossent P and Green LE 2008. A cross-sectional study of the prevalence and associated risk factors for bursitis in weaner, grower and finisher pigs from 93 commercial farms in England. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 83, 308-322. (Pubitemid 351192118)
13. Gonyou HW, Lemay SP and Zhang Y 2006. Effects of the environment on productivity and disease. In Diseases of swine (ed. B Straw, JJ Zimmerman, S D'Allaire and D Taylor), pp. 1027-1038. Blackwell Publishing, Ames, IA, USA.
14. Guy JH, Rowlinson P, Chadwick JP and Ellis M 2002. Health conditions of two genotypes of growing-finishing pig in three different housing systems: implications for welfare. Livestock Production Science 75, 233-243. (Pubitemid 34735620)
15. Hacker RR, Ogilvie JR, Morrison WD and Kains F 1994. Factors affecting excretory behaviour of pigs. Journal of Animal Science 72, 1455-1460.
16. Huynh TTT, Aarnink AJA, Gerrits WJJ, Heetkamp MJH, Canh TT and Spoolder HAM 2005. Thermal behaviour of growing pigs in response to high temperature and humidity. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 91, 1-16. (Pubitemid 40451633)
17. Jaume J and Alfonso L 2000. The Mallorcan Black pig. Agri 2000 27, 53-58.
18. Johnsen PF, Johannesson T and Sandoe P 2001. Assessment of farm animal welfare at herd level: many goals, many methods. Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 51, 26-33.
19. Lee Y, Nelder JA and Pawitan Y 2006. Generalized linear models. In Generalized linear models with random effects (ed. Y Lee, JA Nelder and Y Pawitan), pp. 54-64. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, USA.
20. Lyons CAP, Bruce JM, Fowler VR and English PR 1995. A comparison of productivity and welfare of growing pigs in four intensive systems. Livestock Production Science 43, 265-274.
21. Meunier-Salaün MC 1989. Relations comportementales du porc avec son environnement: critères d'é valuation des systèmes d'é levage. Journé es de la Recherche Porcine 21, 281-296.
22. Mouttotou N, Hatchell FM and Green LE 1998. Adventitious bursitis of the hock in finishing pigs: prevalence, distribution and association with floor type and foot lesions. Veterinary Records 142, 109-114. (Pubitemid 128520237)
23. Mouttotou N, Hatchell FM and Green LE 1999. Prevalence and risk factors associated with adventitious bursitis in live growing and finishing pigs in southwest England. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 39, 39-52. (Pubitemid 29125898)
24. Rodríguez-Estévez V, García A, Peña F and Gómez AG 2009. Foraging of Iberian fattening pigs grazing natural pasture in the dehesa. Livestock Science 120, 135-143.
25. Scott K, Chennells DJ, Armstrong D, Taylor L, Gill BP and Edwards SA 2007. The welfare of finishing pigs under different housing and feeding systems: liquid versus dry feeding in fully-slatted and straw-based housing. Animal Welfare 16, 53-62. (Pubitemid 46242839)
26. Scott K, Chennells DJ, Campbell FM, Hunt B, Armstrong D, Taylor L, Gill BP and Edwards SA 2006. The welfare of finishing pigs in two contrasting housing systems: fully-slatted versus straw-bedded accommodation. Livestock Science 103, 104-115. (Pubitemid 44137298)
27. Segalé s J, Allan GM and Domingo M 2006. Porcine circovirus diseases. In Diseases of swine (ed. B Straw, JJ Zimmerman, S D'Allaire and D Taylor), pp. 299-307. Blackwell Publishing, Ames, IA, USA.
28. Smith WJ 1993. A study of adventitious bursitis of the hock. Thesis, University of Edinburgh, UK.
29. Smulders FJM 2009. A practicable approach to assessing risks for animal welfare - methodological considerations. In Food safety assurance and veterinary public health. Welfare of production animals: assessment and management of risks (ed. FJM Smulders and B Algers), vol. 5, pp. 239-274. Wageningen Academic Publishers, the Netherlands.
30. Temple D, Dalmau A, Ruiz de la Torre JL, Manteca X and Velarde A 2011. Application of the Welfare Quality® protocol to assess growing pigs kept under intensive conditions in Spain. Journal of Veterinary Behavior 6, 138-149.
31. Welfare Quality® 2009. Welfare Quality® applied to growing and finishing pigs. In Welfare Quality® Assessment protocol for pigs (ed. A Dalmau, A Velarde, K Scott, S Edwards, I Veissier, L Keeling and A Butterworth), pp. 49-78. Welfare Quality® Consortium, the Netherlands.
32. Whay HR, Main DCJ, Greent LE and Webster AJF 2003. Animal-based measures for the assessment of welfare state of dairy cattle, pigs and laying hens: consensus of expert opinion. Animal Welfare 12, 205-217. (Pubitemid 36546276)
33. Wolfinger R and O'Connell M 1993. Generalized linear mixed models: a pseudolikelihood approach. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 4, 233-243.