Health monitoring of finishing pigs by secondary data use - a longitudinal analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Germany, animal welfare has become an increasingly important issue. Since 2006, German legislation demands self-monitoring of animal welfare by farmers, but there is a lack of prescribed indicators for governmental monitoring. Since recording of the health status through examinations on individual farms requires many resources, secondary data use is obvious. Therefore, this study deals with the overall evaluation and utilization of existing production data from the German pork production. Performance data and information on antibiotic usage and meat inspection were used for a benchmarking system of animal health in finishing pigs.

Results

Seven health scores and one total score were evaluated for 184 finishing pig herds on semi-annual basis between July 2017 an

SUBMITTER: Grosse-Kleimann J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7903635 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature