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🔎 NEW STUDY: Thermal imaging: A potential tool for early detection of tail lesions in pigs?

Authors: Anna Valros 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭.

🔗 Read the full article: https://ow.ly/16UF50YCciK #

#AnimalWelfare #PigWelfare

We're pleased to announce that Dr Jen-Yen Chou and Dr Emma Baxter have agreed to edit our new book on 'Optimising sow and piglet welfare during farrowing and lactation'.

Find out more about our new editors here: www.bdspublishing.com/about-us/our...

#pigletwelfare #pigwelfare #animalwelfare

#NewResearchAlert

"Nature guiding how we nurture: Using the behavioral ecology of the domestic sow to advance welfare legislation" by Zoltick et al.
Get the full paper here: www.applied-ethology.org/iqs/cpti.23/...

#behaviouralecology #pigwelfare #welfarelegislation

#NewResearchAlert

"Enriching the environment with multiple rooting materials and bedded rest areas improves welfare of finishing pigs" by Ocepek et al.
Get the full paper here: www.applied-ethology.org/iqs/cpti.23/...

#rootingmaterial #enrichmentpigs #pigwelfare

Govt's independent animal welfare experts disagreed with pig welfare reforms The associate agriculture minister announced the rewrite, which undoes a ban on farrowing crates, despite concerns raised by the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee.

Auck Uni assoc. law prof Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere said it was extremely rare for an expert body's advice such as NAWAC to have been ignored.
"That is super weird."
Govt's independent animal welfare experts disagreed with #PigWelfare reforms
#animalwelfare #agsky
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

📍Today, the EU Platform on #AnimalWelfare meets in Brussels.

EFFAB, represented by Johan van Arendonk, joined the panel on #pigwelfare to discuss the ongoing revision of EU farm animal welfare rules.

🐖 Pig breeding is a balanced approach focused on sow & piglet welfare.
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Transformer-based audio-visual multimodal fusion for fine-grained recognition of individual sow nursing behaviour Nursing behaviour and the calling-to-nurse sound are crucial indicators for assessing sow maternal behaviour and nursing status. However, accurately i…

2025. Transformer-based audio-visual multimodal fusion for fine-grained recognition of individual sow nursing behaviour. #PigWelfare #PrecisionLivestockFarming www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great to see some happy, relaxed and enriched pigs. Pigs are widely recognized as highly intelligent animals, displaying complex behaviors, problem-solving skills, and emotional intelligence
#pig #pigwelfare #pigcare #farmanimals

From farm to screen: How a TV documentary funded pig emotion research We now know that pigs' grunts can be translated into underlying emotions after an unusual collaboration between University of Copenhagen biologists and a documentary production company.

From farm to screen: How a TV documentary funded pig emotion research - uniavisen.dk/en/from-farm... #AnimalWelfare #PigWelfare - featuring @ebriefer.bsky.social