S. Korea to adopt international livestock welfare guidelines[Latest swine news]South Korea plans to introduce international guidelines on improving livestock welfare to reflect current trends supporting the humane treatment of farm animals.source: www.asian-agribiz.com |
USA - Ohio: Lawmakers approve livestock board[Latest swine news]The Ohio House signed off on legislation establishing the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board, the next step in the process following voter approval of the issue in November.source: www.the-daily-record.com |
Conditions for breeding at fattening[pig welfare]Paolo Candotti Do the accommodation conditions for your fattening pigs comply with the welfare normatives? Find out with the new test on welfare during fattening. |
Aggression in replacement grower and finisher gilts fed a short-term high-tryptophan diet and the effect of long-term human–animal interaction[swine abstracts]Provision of enhanced TRP diet reduced behavioural activity and aggressiveness of grower gilts, and these results are likely mediated by activation of brain serotonergic system. Short-term high-TRP dietary supplementation may be used to reduce aggression at mixing in young pigs. |
European Union - Animal welfare: step up inspections and penalties to ensure compliance[Latest swine news]EU animal welfare rules must be more rigorously enforced, with more inspections and effective penalties, said the Agriculture Committee. It nonetheless welcomed a reduction in harmful antibiotics in animal feed, further to an EU ban.source: www.europarl.europa.eu |
Surgical castration without anesthesia[What the experts say ]Antonio Velarde Xavier Manteca Approximately 80% of the 120 million male pigs that are slaughtered every year in the European Union are castrated (EFSA, 2004). |
Commission sends Reasoned Opinion to Spain on animal transport[Latest swine news]After recent Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) inspection missions to Spain, the Commission considers that there is a systematic and persistent failure of the Spanish authorities to comply with the relevant EU provisions.source: europa.eu |
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