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Germany: Tierwohl Initiative, improving welfare to improve the end product

Tierwohl Initiative is an initiative that implies farms, abattoirs and supermarkets, and whose aim is to offer a better end product quality through the improvement of the animals’ welfare.

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Challenging the Status Quo on Pig Handling

Low-stress handling techniques show that moving pigs does not need to be a challenge.

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Gangs of piglets: Welfare and growth of imprinted and guided weaners

Weaning stress accompanied by outburst of aggression is a critical point in pig production as it compromises piglets’ welfare and leads to poor growth rate and health problems. Therefore, a weaning methods to smoothen the lactation–weaning transition are of great importance.

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Did you enjoy your holidays?

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Practical EU Animal Transport Guides for cattle, sheep, horses, pigs & poultry now available!

These new guides aim to provide practical advice to professionals to ensure that the animals they transport remain in good welfare.

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You made a pig of yourself!

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Stocking density affects welfare indicators of growing pigs of different group sizes after regrouping

According to the results, the optimal density was 1.2 m2/pig considering welfare and building utilization.

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UK: new research and development to improve the welfare of pigs at slaughter

Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) joins forces with Defra to fund research into a more humane stunning method for pigs.

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Mixing weaned piglets did affect tail biting

The batch and the interaction between treatment and batch had highly significant influences on tail losses at the end of rearing.

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Topigs Norsvin: New resting place in Germany

Topigs Norsvin decided to establish its own resting places in the EU at strategic locations. Those resting places are exclusively for Topigs Norsvin breeding animals.

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Regional limb injection or systemic medication for the treatment of septic lameness in sows

Reducing the use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals may be achieved through more widespread use of RLP. Regional intravenous limb perfusion of an antimicrobial to treat lameness is feasible in swine.

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Overview report: Study visits on rearing pigs with intact tails

The objective of this report is to provide an overview of good practices for the production of pigs with entire tails and highlight the reasons why this is not more widely practised.

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First meeting of the EU Platform on Animal Welfare

European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis officially inaugurates the kick-off meeting of the EU Platform on Animal Welfare.

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The Danish producers, industry and organisations join to improve the organic production

Organic pig producers, abattoirs and organisations related to animal welfare have signed a new agreement that will further improve the pigs’ welfare and their environmental impact. This agreement sets more requisites and regulations and will give place to an E-brand that will come into force in January 1st 2018.

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Welfare insights on slaughter of pregnant animals

EFSA experts have examined issues surrounding the slaughter of pregnant farmed animals in Europe.