This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on improving piglet welfare.The first chapter reviews the main welfare challenges faced during farrowing and lactation, including the occurrence of painful husbandry procedures, such as tooth resection, tail docking and castration. The chapter also highlights various mitigation strategies that can be implemented to optimise the welfare of both sows and piglets in the farrowing environment.The se...

Reviews latest research on diseases affecting pigs and their managementComprehensive review of pig welfare across the life-cycle, from gilts and sows to weaned piglets and finishing pigsIncludes generic welfare issues such as the role of pasture-based systems, humane transport, lairage and slaughter techniques

This book features four peer-reviewed reviews on improving the welfare of growing and finishing pigs.The first chapter begins by defining animal welfare in the context of pig production. The chapter discusses pig behaviour and how this can be affected by intensive production systems, group size, living conditions, as well as systems for monitoring animal health and care.The second chapter explores the relationship between nutrition management and physical and social environ...

Emphasises advances in understanding pig behaviour as the foundation for understanding and improving welfareComprehensive coverable of welfare issues across the value chain, covering breeding and gestation, farrowing and lactation, weaning, growing and finishing as well as transport, lairage and slaughterParticular focus on ways of assessing and reducing pain in such areas as tail docking and castration