Estimating the welfare status at an individual level on the farm is a current issue to improve
livestock animal monitoring. New technologies showed opportunities to analyze livestock …

Chronic stress has a detrimental effect on sow welfare and productivity, as well as on the
welfare and resilience of their piglets, mediated prenatally. Despite this, the specific risk …

Background Farm animals face several challenges throughout their lives, which can affect
both their welfare and their productivity. Promoting adaptation in animals is one way of …

The objective of this study was to determine whether group-housed sow social rank has an
effect on sow gestation and reproductive performance. Forty-nine sows with previous group …

In groups of gestating sows, accessing feed supply may be a source of tension and induce
aggressiveness and fights. Using electronic sow feeders (ESF) could help to ensure that …

Group gestation housing is quickly becoming standard practice in commercial swine
production. However, poor performance and welfare in group housed sows may result from …

This study was undertaken to examine the effects of grouping sows immediately after
weaning or 4 weeks after insemination on i) the occurrence of skin injuries and ii) …

High levels of prolonged aggression continue to be a major welfare issue for commercial pig
farming. It is predominantly seen over the first few hours to few days after mixing unfamiliar …

Sows in an extensive setting maintain small, stable matrilineal social groups comprised of
familiar, and often genetically related, conspecifics. Providing conditions in an intensive farm …

Our research aimed to establish the productivity of piglets during their two-phase rearing
with different durations of the phases of this period of the production cycle. It was established …