Science of Ethology,\u00a0Volume 1, Issue 3<\/p>\n
In our previous article, we have defined a non-competitive feeding system as one in which a sow is not able to obtain more feed by winning a fight.\u00a0 Fights may occur in such a system, but the winning sow does not steal food from the loser.\u00a0 This is accomplished by protecting the sow in a fully enclosed stall while she eats.\u00a0 There are two basic types of non-competitive feeding system, the gated stall and the electronic sow feeder (ESF).\u00a0 In an ESF system, there will only be one feeding station for a group of sows.\u00a0 However, in the gated stall system, all of the sows in a group eat at the same time, and there must be a stall for each sow.\u00a0 Gated stalls, or free-access stalls, are the most common system used in several European countries, including Belgium where 31% of farms and 37% of sows use the system.\u00a0 Within that country it is the most popular choice when making conversions (Tuyttens et al., 2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Science of Ethology,\u00a0Volume 1, Issue 3 In our previous article, we have defined a non-competitive feeding system as one in which a sow is not able to obtain more feed by winning a fight.\u00a0 Fights may occur in such a system, but the winning sow does not steal food from the loser.\u00a0 This is accomplished […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,928],"tags":[8855,4685,3814,21595,22072,22256,4598,23903,4593,3280,6687,2826,46,1293,108,20462,24215,7863,7761,26924,22416,25468,27036,3465,22452,24287,27101,23918,104,6796,10174,96,4599,24672,3283,13714,23031,15596,25357,22071,6053,26835],"class_list":["post-14181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-welfare","tag-feeding-stalls","tag-access","tag-competitive","tag-competitive-feeding","tag-competitive-feeding-systems","tag-dinamic-static","tag-electronic","tag-electronic-feeding-systems-swine","tag-electronic-sow-feeder","tag-electronic-sow-feeding","tag-electronic-sow-feeding-system","tag-esf","tag-feed","tag-feeder","tag-feeding","tag-feeding-sows","tag-feeding-stalls-types","tag-feeding-system","tag-free-access-stalls","tag-free-stall-sow-barns","tag-gated-stalls","tag-individual-feeding-stalls-for-sows","tag-new-swine-feeding-stalls","tag-pea","tag-pea-sow","tag-prairie-swine-centre-free-access-stalls","tag-quality-swine-stalls","tag-science-of-ethology-volume-1-issue-2-competitive-feeding-systems","tag-sow","tag-sow-gestation","tag-sow-stall","tag-sows","tag-stall","tag-stall-swine","tag-stalls","tag-swine-feeding-stalls","tag-swine-feeding-system","tag-swine-feeding-systems","tag-t-design","tag-title-competitive-feeding-systems","tag-use","tag-wet-feed-system-for-outdoor-sows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14181"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15287,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181\/revisions\/15287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}