Consequences of timing of organic enrichment provision on pig performance, health and stress resilience after weaning and regrouping.

ABSTRACT: Most pigs in slatted systems are provided with enrichment meeting only minimum legal requirements. We aimed to explore the effects of a novel enrichment treatment consisting of daily provided fodder beet and jute bags for pigs in slatted systems, and investigate the timing of enrichment provision on performance, health and stress resilience. We used 280 weaners allocated into standard (S, meeting only legal requirements consisting of a plastic toy and softwood) or enriched (E) treatment (n = 14 groups/treatment). At regrouping during the grower to finisher transition, pigs were either kept in the same treatment (EE, SS) or switched from enriched to standard (ES) and vice versa (SE); each treatment was replicated on five groups. Pigs were weighted at the start and end of weaner, and finishe

SUBMITTER: Buckova K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9596380 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature