Author: Cynthia Petrie Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stockperson training represents an integral component of any successful farm operation. This resource guide was developed to assist swine producers, farm managers, extension specialists, and others in locating educational resources regarding swine housing, care, and welfare. The guide contains a detailed listing of training materials, books, selected web pages, and an extensive bibliography. Farm managers, extension agents, and others, are encouraged to be creative with the resources listed and integrate their use into their regular farm training programs.
Author: Jeremy N. Marchant-Forde
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-11-26
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1402089090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The domestic pig is perceived as an animal with intelligence and character and yet, in the industrialized world, the majority of people have had little or no contact with them. Pigs are subject to a wide range of environments from the tropics to the sub-arctic, ranging from small-scale, extensive systems to large-scale intensive systems. They may spend their whole life on one farm or may be subject to long-distance transport multiple times. Not surprisingly, many aspects of their life experiences can impact their welfare. This book brings together a team of leading pig welfare research scientists to review the natural history of the pig, the welfare of pigs at different stages of life and to indicate what the future holds in terms of pig welfare. The text is aimed at researchers and teachers working in veterinary and animal science together with those working in the pig industry and for governmental and non-governmental animal welfare organizations.
Author: Irene Camerlink
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
Published: 2023-10-03
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 0323915736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Advances in Pig Welfare, Second Edition continues its complete coverage of key areas of pig welfare assessment, management and improvement. The book covers both recent developments and reviews of historical welfare issues, with 12 new chapters addressing the most relevant and significant issues from a global perspective. Sections review the needs of pigs, including chapters on the physical environment and the social and emotional needs of the animals, key welfare issues in the pig’s lifecycle from birth to slaughter, including weaning, aggression and pig-human interactions, and emerging topics such as prenatal stress, individual differences and organic farming. Final sections cover pig welfare and attitudes towards pig welfare amongst farmers and other stakeholders. Written by an international team of leaders in the field, the book continues to be a useful resource for practicing vets involved in welfare assessment, welfare research scientists and students, and indeed anyone with a professional interest in the welfare of pigs. Provides the most recent research applications in pig welfare Analyzes on-farm assessments of pig welfare, an extremely important marker for the monitoring of real welfare with impacts and implications for changes in other husbandry systems Includes factors that affect pig welfare, how to practically control these factors, and the impact that these factors have on animal health Provides new chapters on economics, husbandry, environment, climate change and precision livestock
Author: Peter English
Publisher: Nottingham University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focuses on the care of the pig, affirming the importance of the stock person in animal husbandry, health, welfare and unit performance. A review of what is known about the factors that contribute to the quality of stockmanship is followed by suggestions for improving stockmanship.
Author: Primary Industries Standing Committee
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780643094772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new edition of the Code is intended as a guide for all people responsible for the welfare of pigs under both intensive, deep litter and outdoor systems. Good welfare of farmed pigs will ensure that pigs cope well in their environment and that factors such as growth, reproductive performance, disease levels, injuries and death rates are within industry standards. The Code recognizes that the basic requirement for the welfare of pigs is a husbandry system, managed by trained and skilled stock-people to ensure that basic needs of pigs are met: * Readily accessible appropriate and sufficient food and water * Adequate shelter to protect from climatic extremes * Opportunity to display appropriate patterns of behaviour * Physical handling in a manner which minimizes the likelihood of unreasonable or unnecessary pain or distress * Protection from, and/or rapid diagnosis and correct treatment of injury or disease * Freedom for necessary movement including to stand, stretch and lie down * Visual and social contact with other pigs This Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals has been prepared by the Animal Welfare Working Group (AWWG) for the Primary Industries Ministerial Council (PIMC). The AWWG is made up of representatives from CSIRO, Animal Health Australia, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Australia, and from each of the State Departments responsible for agriculture. Extensive consultation has taken place with industry and animal welfare organisations in the development of the Code. This new edition supercedes the Second Edition, SCARM Report 66