Enrichment

November 2021 - March 2020

Study shows how environmental enrichment promotes improved piglet welfare

Pig Welfare Enrichment Genetics and traits

29 November 2021

3 minute read

Recent study looks at how environmental enrichment can promote species-specific behaviors in pigs

Red Tractor revises farm standards to equip British agriculture for the future

Disease Pig Welfare Enrichment

21 July 2021

15 minute read

Red Tractor, the UK’s largest and most comprehensive food assurance scheme, has shared how it has listened to feedback and outlined what is changing in its revised farm standards from November.

UK pig sector continues to achieve high welfare scores - AHDB data

Disease Pig Welfare Enrichment

26 January 2021

4 minute read

The AHDB's Real Welfare scheme is demonstrating best practices in the pig industry and is achieving continued improvements in pig welfare.

GroupHouseNet: four years of EU-wide collaboration on tail docking solutions

Disease Pig Welfare Enrichment

14 April 2020

8 minute read

In 2016, the EU programme, COST, funded an initiative to collaborate across Europe with the aim of reducing damaging behaviour in group housed pigs and poultry. The resulting COST Action, “GroupHouseNet”, has worked over the last four years to reach that aim.

New research shows regular exercise improves survival rate of offspring of older sows

Disease Pig Welfare Enrichment

13 March 2020

3 minute read

Research conducted at the Prairie Swine Centre indicates the offspring of higher parity or older stall-housed sows have a higher rate of survival when those sows receive regular exercise.

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