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Online Video Film: Pasture Rooting Behaviour in Organic Outdoor Pigs
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A reference manual that covers all aspects of pig production, on the basis of scientific research results. This work contains current, easy-to-understand scientific reviews on animal welfare with over 700 specific references to animal welfare. All aspects of animal welfare with respect to pigs are discussed, from genetic selection and breeding to transportation and slaughter. Written by a panel of international scientific and practical industry experts renowned for their knowledge and work in the area of pig welfare. Their common goal was to provide an in-depth review and empirical assessment of pig production concepts, knowledge and techniques in use today. Through scientific examples, the authors explain how improving animal welfare increases profitability. This work is intended for academics, researchers, students, animal welfare associations, industry and anyone who is involved in the production chain or concerned about the welfare of pigs being raised on farms.

Topics: Welfare concepts; Welfare definition; Welfare & Needs; Welfare & farm livestock feelings; Welfare & stress in hogs & swine; Welfare, health & disease; Welfare & pain; Welfare assessment; Neuroendocrine physiology systems; Behaviour; Pork Production & pathology; welfare of pregnant & lactating sows; Hunger & thirst; Comfort & Discomfort; Pain & injuries; Behavioural needs; Fear, stress & suffering; welfare of piglets in litters; Housing requirements; Nutrition & welfare; Vigour, Viability & Health; Welfare of growing & finishing pigs; Welfare recently weaned & nursery swine; The Grow-Finish period; Housing & environmental effects on welfare & meat quality of the Grower-Finisher pig; Opportunities to improve Grow-Finish pig welfare; Welfare of pigs during transport; Loading density; Transport distance & duration; Vehicle design; Non-ambulatory animals & unfit for movement; Effects of preslaughter handling on stress response & meat quality in pigs; Critical points in pre-slaughter period; Welfare of pigs during stunning & slaughter; Handling during stunning; Stun methods; Euthanasia Killing of pigs on the farms during disease outbreaks; Breeding pigs for improved welfare; Genetics and animal breeding; Pig breeding today; Direct influence of breeding procedures on welfare; Heterosis improves piglet vitality; Selection for increased litter size requires selection for piglet survival; Maternal behaviour & fear; Sow’s ability to produce milk and to use body reserves; Relation between growth, leanness, feed conversion & welfare; Leg weakness and longevity; Selection against or for extreme stress sensitivity?; Selection for improved resistance to micro-organisms; Breeding instead of castration?; Selection against ‘bad behaviour’; Selection for decreased environmental sensitivity; Data needed to improve welfare by breeding; Role of cooperation in improving pig welfare; Practical implications; Stockmanship skills: Human-pig relationships; Human-animal relationships in pig production; Fear, productivity & welfare; Stockperson characteristics regulating the pig’s fear of humans; Important job-related characteristics of farm staff personnel; Opportunities to improve human-animal interactions in the pig industry; Training; Selection of stockpeople; Social, ethical and scientific issues; Debate about animal welfare; Animal welfare science; Pork assurance programs; Application of animal welfare science.

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A practical, scientific, multidisciplinary manual reviewing the latest science and technology to evaluate the welfare of pigs on farm. Includes review, assessment and validation of the livestock industry applicable indicators and parameters of well-being in swine. Measuring methods and systems assessed for validity, reliability and feasibility. This wide-ranging book is focussed mainly on animal-based parameters but other environmental and management-based parameters are also described.

Topical EU pig industry welfare issues are analysed by well-known experts in the field of farm animal welfare work particularly aspects related to the farming and production of pigs. This textbook includes critical analysis of on-farm monitoring of pig welfare in relation to the development of certification procedures and evaluation of production systems (farm, transport, slaughter), analysis and solution of welfare-related problems and development of new directions for research projects. TABLE OF CONTENTS

 
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Warthog [Wild relative of Domestic Pig] Fights Lion - Aggressive Territorial Behaviour
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Intelligent Pigs? - A Clever Well-trained Miniature Pig
Training Pigs Video - A Trained Performing Potbelly Pig Demonstrates Tricks
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Weaning the Pig:  Concepts and Consequences
32 Authors include Prof. Peter Brooks, Dr. F. Madec, J.R. Pluske, J. Le Dividich & M.W.A. Verstegen
Wageningen Agricultural University

• Growth of the weaned pig
• Nutritional management of the pig in preparation for weaning
• Behavioural changes & adaptations associated with weaning
• Factors affecting voluntary feed intake in weaned piglets
• Digestive physiology of the weaner hog
• Aspects of intestinal immunity in the pig around weaning time
• Nutritional requirements of the weaned pig
• Environmental requirements & housing of weaned hogs
• Saving and rearing underprivileged & supernumerary piglets - improving health at weaning
• Providing assistance to piglets at birth, Cross-fostering, Split weaning
• Growth potential of underprivileged piglets
• All-in / All-out management system for farrowing and weaner housing
• Segregated Early Weaning for Disease Control
• Productivity and Longevity of Weaned Sows - Reproductive causes of culling

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There is a big public debate and widespread ethical concerns about animal production and our treatment of animals. This book is the first to specifically examine these issues from an educational/teaching perspective - of great value to veterinary, livestock agriculture and science students and teachers. Useful for people interested in developing moral reasoning and communication skills relative to ethics, whether animal centred or in a broader sense.

The Lactating Sow:  Behaviour - Physiology - Endocrinology - Management
Edited by Verstegen, Moughan & Schrama, Wageningen Agricultural University & Massey University New Zealand
17 chapters - Expert Authors - 350 pages

• Overview of biological and zootechnical aspects of lactation in sows
• Colostrum and sow's milk composition
• Immunological aspects and Piglet digestion of sow's milk
• Major factors affecting lactation performance
• Genetic heritability, diet nutrition, pregnancy feeding, age factors
• Environmental requirements of lactating sows
• Relationship between nutritional strategy and reproduction

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Environmental enrichment is one of the key factors in improving the welfare of any type of animal - companion animals, food livestock, laboratory or zoo species. This comprehensive work on the topic covers both scientific principles and practical implementation of environmental enrichment.
This book is the first to integrate scientific knowledge and principles to show how environmental enrichment can be used on different types of animal. Filling a major gap, it considers the history of animal keeping, legal issues and ethics, right through to a detailed exploration of whether environmental enrichment actually works, the methods involved, and how to design and manage an enrichment program.
Contents

* Environmental Enrichment: an Historical Perspective
* Why Bother with Environmental Enrichment?
* Does Environmental Enrichment Work?
* Proactive versus Reactive use of Environmental Enrichment
* Designing an Enrichment Device
* The Enrichment Programme
* Enrichment for Different Categories of Animals
* Food and Foraging Enrichment Programs
* Social Environmental Enrichment
* Housing Enrichment Programmes
* Furniture, Toys and Other Foibles
* Designing and Analysing Enrichment Studies
* Information Sources about Environmental Enrichment
* References

Author
Robert Young is Professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of Minas Gerais, Brazil where he works on environmental enrichment in zoo animals and also conducts field research on a variety of animal species. He has given lectures, workshops and mini-courses on the principles and methods of environmental enrichment in UK, USA, Denmark, Russia and Brazil.

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Talented Pig Upstages Simon Cowell on Popular UK Talent Show
Britain's Got Talent in the form of Rupert The Performing Pig!
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The science behind animal welfare has progressed significantly, new codes of practice and legislation have come into to being, and innovative methods to assess welfare schemes for food production have emerged. Part of a major animal welfare series, Animal Welfare - Limping Towards Eden is John Webster's new and groundbreaking work on animal welfare. Building on his first book, the highly acclaimed Animal Welfare: A Cool Eye Towards Eden, it not only critically reviews areas of development, but looks to how animal welfare can be improved in the future.
Special consideration is given to:
* Defining animal welfare (fit and happy) and establishing a systematic approach for its evaluation (the five freedoms);: Providing a sound ethical framework that affords proper respect to animals within the broader context of our duties as citizens to the welfare of society;
* Developing comprehensive, robust protocols for assessing animal welfare and the provisions that constitute good husbandry;
* Introducing an education policy that will increase human awareness of animal welfare problems and promote action to reduce suffering.