{"id":21057,"date":"2018-05-01T11:01:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T17:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=21057"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:01:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T17:01:20","slug":"cleaning-ease-and-animal-welfare-implications-of-trailer-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/cleaning-ease-and-animal-welfare-implications-of-trailer-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Ease and Animal Welfare Implications of Trailer Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of this initial study was to develop an inventory list of trailers\u00a0commonly used for the transportation of market hogs in Canada. Hog\u00a0transport companies in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario were visited<br \/>\nin order to document various trailer features specifically those influencing\u00a0ease of cleaning and animal handling characteristics. Each trailer design\u00a0was ranked according to cleaning ease, animal handling and welfare<br \/>\ncharacteristics. In addition to a trailer inventory, a questionnaire was\u00a0developed and transport companies were interviewed to gain further insight\u00a0into trailer design and usage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Cleaning-Ease-and-Animal-Welfare.pdf\">Cleaning Ease and Animal Welfare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of this initial study was to develop an inventory list of trailers\u00a0commonly used for the transportation of market hogs in Canada. Hog\u00a0transport companies in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario were visited in order to document various trailer features specifically those influencing\u00a0ease of cleaning and animal handling characteristics. Each trailer design\u00a0was ranked according to cleaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,931],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21059,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057\/revisions\/21059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}