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Alternative housing. --- Farrowing. --- Housing. --- Lactate. --- Pig. --- Space.
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Alternative housing. --- Behavior. --- Design. --- Housing. --- Pen. --- Performance. --- Pig. --- Swine.
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Alternative housing. --- Cage. --- Hen. --- Housing. --- Laying hen. --- Laying hens. --- Research. --- System.
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Abnormal behaviour. --- Alternative housing. --- Environment. --- Farm animals. --- Fox. --- Housing. --- Mink. --- Self-mutilation. --- Space. --- Welfare.
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Emergency housing --- United States. --- Alternative Housing Pilot Program (U.S.) --- Evaluation.
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Emergency housing --- United States. --- Alternative Housing Pilot Program (U.S.) --- Evaluation. --- Evaluation.
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The problems in traditional horse keeping are focussed on lack in activity, lowered quality of air inside the stables, low frequency of feeding and restricted access to be in social contact with other horses. Consequences of the lowered activity are a decrease in training of tendons, skeleton and bone density, A relevant risk may be present particular if horses are just stabled and start to be trained. The inactivity of horses kept in isolated boxes delays or inhibits the adaptation of skeleton and muscle to the increasing work load. Dust and ammonia burdened air condition badly influences the respiratory system, while the common indoor feeding frequency (2-3 meals/day) is in contrast to the ingestion behaviour of horses on posture. Here similar to2/3 of the time budget is covered by feed intake associated with continuous movement. Particular offering concentrates in a few meals/day creates risk for digestive disorders including gastric ulcers and discrepancies in behaviour. Those are in addition promoted by the isolation of horses in boxes without social contact to other individuals. New concepts in housing and feeding management supported by computer technology can help to solve the described disadvantages associated with keeping horses in boxes. The so called multi room group stabling system stimulates the degree and spectrum of activity of horses within a group by spaced organisation of the function areas roughage-, concentrate intake, watering, rest room, walking area, A computerized feeding system enables the management to distribute the feed over a high number of meals. That in part simulates the continuous feed intake and passage of ingesta through the gastro-intestinal tract which is observed under natural conditions like posture. By reason of the advantages in relation to ethology, digestive physiology and thereby to general health of the horse, alternative housing and feeding systems like that here described will be more intensively recognized in f
Access. --- Activity. --- Adaptation. --- Alternative housing. --- Ammonia. --- Area. --- Behaviour. --- Bone. --- Boxes. --- Computer. --- Consequences. --- Contact. --- Density. --- Disorder. --- Ethology. --- Feed-intake. --- Feeding technique. --- Feeding. --- Foals. --- Frequency. --- Function areas. --- Function. --- Group. --- Health. --- Horse. --- Horses. --- Housing management. --- Housing. --- Inactivity. --- Isolation. --- Kept. --- Management. --- Meal. --- Movement. --- Natural. --- Physiology. --- Posture. --- Quality. --- Respiratory. --- Risk. --- Roughage. --- Social contact. --- Social. --- Spectrum. --- Stable housing. --- System. --- Systems. --- Time budget. --- Time. --- Training. --- Ulcer. --- Walking. --- Work.
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Previous experimental work has shown modest and variable production and welfare benefits for the lactating sow and piglets when sows are allowed to separate themselves temporarily from their piglets, or when piglets have access to a communal creep area sufficiently attractive that they spend substantial time away from the sow. This experiment tested the effect of both features together. Sows from experimental litters could enter a get-away area separated from the piglets where, after 12 days of lactation, they could mingle with two other sows. Litters had access to a creep area where they could mingle with piglets from two other litters after 14 days of age. Eleven experimental cohorts consisting of three sows and their litters were tested in this way. For the 12 control cohorts, also of three litters each, sows could not get-away from their piglets, and piglets could not mingle with other litters. Experimental sows spent over 14 h per day away from their piglets by the end (day 27) of lactation. Experimental sows also nursed their litters less often than controls, decreasing to almost 30% less by the end of lactation (P < 0.01), and consumed less food during lactation (P < 0.05). There was no significant effect of treatment on sow weight loss or weaning-to-oestrus interval. Piglets from experimental litters spent over 40% of their time in the pens of other litters by the end of lactation, and spent significantly (P < 0.05) more time than control piglets in the creep area. Experimental piglets ate more creep feed before weaning (P < 0.001), but tended to gain less weight (P = 0.05). After weaning, these piglets continued to cat more (P < 0.05) and gained more weight (P < 0.05), such that the average body weights were similar for experimental and control piglets on day 42 (11.8 +/- 0.26 kg versus 11.7 +/- 0.25 kg; N.S.). We observed some agonistic behaviour between experimental sows when they were first allowed to interact and between experimental piglets when mix
Access. --- Age. --- Aggression. --- Agonistic behaviour. --- Agonistic. --- Alternative housing. --- Area. --- Behaviour. --- Body weight. --- Body-weight. --- Cat. --- Control. --- Demand. --- Experiment. --- Food. --- Group-housed sows. --- Growth. --- Housing system. --- Housing. --- Lactation. --- Level. --- Mixing. --- Nursing. --- Patterns. --- Pen. --- Performance. --- Pig-housing. --- Piglets. --- Pigs. --- Post weaning. --- Production. --- Socialisation. --- Sow. --- Sows. --- Suckling behavior. --- System. --- Systems. --- Time. --- Treatment. --- Weaning. --- Weight. --- Welfare. --- Work.
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Conventional husbandry systems for pork production are scrutinized by members of the general public as well as the scientific community. As a response, alternative forms of pig production, such as outdoor housing, organic farming and environmental enrichment are gaining interest. The question arises whether these production systems are indeed able to improve the welfare and health status of the animals, and whether these production systems alter production characteristics and meat or carcass traits. Measures of poor welfare have been described, but evaluating overall welfare is difficult. Certain parameters of alternative housing will improve welfare in some ways but, simultaneously, other welfare problems are inflated, and the weighting of each of these problems is very subjective. Alternative housing systems allow pigs to display species-specific behaviour and decrease the occurrence of abnormal behaviours by acting on several parameters: indoor versus outdoor housing, floor space/density, floor type, and provision of bedding or other types of environmental enrichment. Evaluating alternative housing systems should be done by looking at all the welfare-improving factors and the cost of alleviating welfare-decreasing problems in a given production system. Data in the literature on growth, meat and carcass traits in alternative production systems, are inconsistent, indicating that other factors can play an important role. However, as equal, or in some cases even better, performance can be attained in certain production systems that meet concerns of animal welfare scientists and members of the general public, alternative production forms may be considered preferable. (c) 2005 Society of Chemical Industry
2 genotypes. --- Abnormal behaviour. --- Alternative housing. --- Animal welfare. --- Animal-welfare. --- Animal. --- Animals. --- Bedding. --- Behaviour. --- Breeding. --- Carcass composition. --- Carcass quality. --- Carcass. --- Cost. --- Enrichment. --- Environmental enrichment. --- Farming. --- Fattening pigs. --- Floor. --- Growing-finishing pig. --- Growth-performance. --- Growth. --- Health. --- Housing system. --- Housing. --- Husbandry. --- Intramuscular fat-content. --- M.-longissimus-lumborum. --- Management. --- Meat quality. --- Meat. --- Muscle-fiber characteristics. --- Parameters. --- Performance. --- Pig. --- Pigs. --- Play. --- Production systems. --- Production. --- Provision. --- Quality. --- Response. --- Review. --- Space allowance. --- System. --- Systems. --- Time. --- Weighting. --- Welfare.
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This reprint contains articles from the Special Issue of Animals “Housing Environment and Farm Animals' Well-Being”, including original research, review, and communication related to livestock and poultry environmental management, air quality control, emissions mitigation, and assessment of animal health and well-being.
Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Technology, engineering, agriculture --- broiler production --- alternative flooring --- ammonia emissions --- animal welfare --- environmental impact --- air pollution control --- air quality --- volatile organic compounds --- odor --- environmental technology --- advanced oxidation --- UV --- thermal index --- sows --- environmental parameters --- heat stress threshold --- skin temperature --- temperature and humidity index --- black globe-humidity index --- effective temperature --- equivalent temperature index for sows --- enthalpy --- group housing system --- individual stall --- behavior --- stress hormone --- offspring --- gestating sows --- weaned piglets --- cold exposure --- growth performance --- skeletal muscle fiber --- antioxidant capacity --- dairy cattle --- heat stress --- airborne E. coli --- settled E. coli --- survivability --- airborne transmission --- poultry --- heavy broiler --- surface temperature --- air velocity --- temperature humidity index --- alternative housing --- body temperature --- bone quality --- relative brain weight --- welfare --- pullet status --- housing type --- environmental management --- livestock monitoring --- camera coverage optimization --- sensor placement --- genetic algorithm --- broiler production --- alternative flooring --- ammonia emissions --- animal welfare --- environmental impact --- air pollution control --- air quality --- volatile organic compounds --- odor --- environmental technology --- advanced oxidation --- UV --- thermal index --- sows --- environmental parameters --- heat stress threshold --- skin temperature --- temperature and humidity index --- black globe-humidity index --- effective temperature --- equivalent temperature index for sows --- enthalpy --- group housing system --- individual stall --- behavior --- stress hormone --- offspring --- gestating sows --- weaned piglets --- cold exposure --- growth performance --- skeletal muscle fiber --- antioxidant capacity --- dairy cattle --- heat stress --- airborne E. coli --- settled E. coli --- survivability --- airborne transmission --- poultry --- heavy broiler --- surface temperature --- air velocity --- temperature humidity index --- alternative housing --- body temperature --- bone quality --- relative brain weight --- welfare --- pullet status --- housing type --- environmental management --- livestock monitoring --- camera coverage optimization --- sensor placement --- genetic algorithm
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