{"id":15154,"date":"2013-09-25T13:08:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T19:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=15154"},"modified":"2013-09-25T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T20:00:45","slug":"alternative-farrowing-accommodation-welfare-and-economic-aspects-of-existing-farrowing-and-lactation-systems-for-pigs-sandra-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/alternative-farrowing-accommodation-welfare-and-economic-aspects-of-existing-farrowing-and-lactation-systems-for-pigs-sandra-edwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative farrowing accommodation: welfare and economic aspects of existing farrowing and lactation systems for pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the evaluation of welfare and economic performance of\u00a0systems described in this paper, the designed pen appears to\u00a0offer the best indoor alternative to conventional farrowing\u00a0crates. However, it is important to make efforts to refine these\u00a0systems as there are still concerns, particularly regarding\u00a0safety and ease of operation, and robustness to variability in\u00a0maternal behaviour. Research into physical attributes of the\u00a0systems that can facilitate the former and biological strategies\u00a0(e.g. breeding for better maternal behaviour) to target\u00a0the latter are important on-going objectives. In addition, to\u00a0futureproof systems for a developing pig industry and uncertain\u00a0market, additional research is needed to determine the\u00a0environmental impact of certain systems and their economic\u00a0feasibility in a national and international market place.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Sandra Edwards<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the evaluation of welfare and economic performance of\u00a0systems described in this paper, the designed pen appears to\u00a0offer the best indoor alternative to conventional farrowing\u00a0crates. However, it is important to make efforts to refine these\u00a0systems as there are still concerns, particularly regarding\u00a0safety and ease of operation, and robustness to variability in\u00a0maternal behaviour. Research into physical [&hellip;]<\/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":[26900,26096,103,2771,14,26341,26222,27281],"class_list":["post-15154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-welfare","tag-economical-aspect-of-pig","tag-edwards","tag-farrowing","tag-iron","tag-pig","tag-sandra-edw","tag-sandra-edwards","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154","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=15154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15157,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154\/revisions\/15157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}