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- Hannius, Linda Marie, et al.
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Effects of early social mixing and genetic line on female piglet activity, pen location and social interactions pre- and post-weaning under Swedish commercial pig production conditions
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In: Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section A - Animal Science. - 0906-4702 .- 1651-1972. ; 72, s. 135-148
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study investigated activity, preferred pen location and social interactions in female piglets (0-10 weeks of age, N = 98) intended for breeding. Piglets were housed in pens where the sow and the piglets were loose-housed without (CP) or with access to the neighbouring pen week 2-5 (AP). Female piglets of two genetic lines (Dutch and Swedish Yorkshire (DY, SY)) from 26 litters were selected within 24 h after birth. DY piglets in the AP treatment spent more time in the neighbouring pen than SY (24.0% vs 19.0%), while AP piglets of both genetic lines spent less time lying down before weaning than CP. At weaning, CP piglets increased their time in the piglet corner and spent less time lying. SY piglets were less responsive to social interactions. The results confirm previous findings on favourable effects of early social mixing on piglets' behavioural responses to weaning also when sows are individually loose-housed.
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- Alanärä, Anders, et al.
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Utsättning av djur för jakt och fiske
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Book (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- SLUs vetenskapliga råd för djurskydd har fått i uppdrag av Jordbruksverket att sammanställa aktuell forskning kring utsättning av djur för jakt och fiske samt att belysa eventuella kunskapsluckor på området. Uppdraget omfattar gräsand, rapphöna, fasan och laxfiskar. Bruket att föda upp fåglar och fiskar för utsättning i syfte att gynna jakt och fiske ifrågasätts inte sällan av etiska skäl, men den diskussionen ligger utanför fokus för denna rapport. Utsättning av fågel och fisk är en antropogen verksamhet som, till skillnad från många andra typer av mänsklig påverkan, syftar till att gynna arterna i fråga. Det kan handla om naturvårdsinsatser, att återinföra försvunna arter eller att på andra sätt berika ekosystemet, inte sällan med ökade möjligheter till jakt eller fiske som slutändamål. Ofta förbereds och åtföljs utsättningar av habitatförbättrande åtgärder som inte endast gynnar de utsatta individerna och deras artfränder, utan även har positiva konsekvenser för biologisk mångfald och ekosystemet i stort. I utarbetandet av regelverket knutet till utsättning av fågel och fisk är det viktigt att även beakta de positiva föresatserna och de konsekvenser som verksamheten kan medföra. Annars riskerar man att engagemang och incitament förloras, till men för biologisk mångfald och en rik och levande landsbygd.
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- Algers, Bo, et al.
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Outcome of the public consultation on the guidance on risk assessment for animal welfare
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- EFSA requested the Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) Panel to develop guidance on risk assessment for animal welfare. In order to ensure that the Guidance is based on comprehensive, relevant and up-to-date information, and in line with EFSA's policy on openness and transparency, a web-based consultation on the draft scientific output at stake was launched in May 2011 for a two months period. The main objective of the consultation was to gather the widest range of views and comments from the scientific community, stakeholders and all interested parties to help finalise the scientific opinion on the Guidance on risk assessment for animal welfare. The web-consultation gave also the opportunity to inform the public about the draft guidance, the stage of development, and to receive feed back on the contents and its quality. The total number of electronic submissions of comments was 96. Relevant comments to be considered in the scientific assessment (n=78) were incorporated into the draft guidance when the working group considered their scientific basis to be valid. Some of the comments were based on the measures to be taken to improve welfare, meaning risk management, which is out of the remit of EFSA. In relation to the comments about the use of industry experts for the assessment of welfare, the independency of the experts involved in any of the EFSA activities should be guaranteed to prevent any possible bias of the scientific outputs. The document published for the public consultation was revised according to the comments received and the guidance on risk assessment for animal welfare was adopted by the AHAW Panel on 13th of December 2011[1]. This Technical Report presents the main points of discussion, comments and actions taken by EFSA.
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