Page 2 of articles about behaviour-welfare in Abstracts

Frequent emission of short sounds can reduce time spent sleeping and cause behavior changes. However, gestating sows can habituate to the sound stimuli and return to normal behavior.

Enrichment did not enhance the speed of recovery from challenges in pigs, although there were indications of reduced stress

Results suggested that farrowing pens with temporary crating facilitated mother-young interactions and showed a higher crushing rate.

The provision of nesting material to sows prior to farrowing can increase sow maternal care traits and piglet performance.

Environmental enrichment with cubes appears to have the greatest effect when applied post-weaning whereas flavor attractants appear to have the greatest effect when applied both pre- and post-weaning.

The use of cortisone and the estimation of 11β-HSD type 2 activity in hair is recommended instead of using hair cortisol concentrations alone.

Results indicate that the pain-related behaviors in pigs from the UPAPS have different statistical weights.

Findings may explain numerically lower pregnancy and farrowing rates in sows mixed two days post-service.

The jute material and piglet nests positively impacted sow welfare and piglet measures but did not translate into improved piglet survival.

These findings highlight the complexities involved when forming social preferences and present a platform for further exploring the motivations for preferential associations among intensively farmed pigs.

Heritability estimates for all studied traits suggest they could be suitable as a method of phenotyping aggression and fear/boldness for genetic selection purposes.

Resilience to weaning stress was associated with behavioral differences in finishing gilts at mixing and when faced with novel situations.

The approach is capable of automatically monitoring several different behaviors of a group of pigs at the same time.

Results show the importance of differentiating between low viable and viable crushed piglets for the interpretation of risk factors for crushing losses.

Lameness may decrease sow gestation length and reduce placental efficiency in protecting the offspring from the sows’ stress response.