Fattening Pig Farmers’ Intention to Participate in Animal Welfare Programs

Pig in the middle: farmers and the delivery of farm animal welfare standards

Purpose This paper examines the attitude of UK pig farmers to the delivery of improved farm animal welfare standards and investigates how they contribute to this objective through their membership of a range of different farm assurance schemes. Design/methodology/approach The analysis focuses on three main groups of pig farmers: (i) farmers engaged in conventional farm assurance schemes; (ii) f...

Animal health and welfare--pig production.

Requirements of the organic pig farming create an opportunity to offer good life for animals. The space requirements give animals the possibility to exhibit species-specific behavior and provide them opportunity for more exercise. Bedding and roughage are important in helping to reduce production stress. The most difficult question in a veterinary point of view is how to manage the animal healt...

Ammonia Emission from Fattening Pig Houses in Relation to Animal Activity and Carbon Dioxide Production

Ammonia emission from animal facilities is a world-wide research focus area, because ammonia is a nuisance for the external environment. It is therefore important to know how ammonia emissions depend on various factors, such as animal activity and ventilation rate. The objective of this paper is to show the impact of animal activity on the variation of the diurnal ammonia emission in controlled...

Participation in prevention programs for dating violence: beliefs about relationship violence and intention to participate.

This study utilizes the Health Belief Model (HBM) to examine the factors related to the intention to participate in prevention programming for dating violence. Perceptions of susceptibility to future violence and the benefits of prevention programming appear to be the strongest predictors of participation in prevention programs. Perceptions of the severity of dating violence do not appear to be...

Animal health and welfare in fattening pigs in relation to housing and husbandry Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare