{"id":19319,"date":"2017-05-11T13:52:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19319"},"modified":"2017-05-11T13:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:52:13","slug":"the-new-canadian-code-of-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/the-new-canadian-code-of-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NEW CANADIAN CODE OF PRACTICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Codes of Practice are reviewed and updated periodically, with a new swine code being\u00a0released in March of 2014 (NFACC, 2014). The new Code of Practice for the Care and\u00a0Handling of Pigs includes a number of changes that impact production practices and\u00a0housing for Canadian pigs. The most significant changes in the new code are related to\u00a0sow housing, pain control at castration and tail docking, space allowances and enrichment.\u00a0For all aspects of production, the code includes both \u2018requirements\u2019, where the expected\u00a0standards or outcomes to be met are clearly stated, and \u2018recommended practices\u2019, which\u00a0describe practices over and above the requirements which can be implemented on-farm to\u00a0further improve animal production and wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Codes of Practice are reviewed and updated periodically, with a new swine code being\u00a0released in March of 2014 (NFACC, 2014). The new Code of Practice for the Care and\u00a0Handling of Pigs includes a number of changes that impact production practices and\u00a0housing for Canadian pigs. The most significant changes in the new code are related to\u00a0sow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,931,928],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre","category-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19319","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=19319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19320,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19319\/revisions\/19320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}