Overall welfare assessment of pregnant sow housing systems based on interviews with experts

Effects of group housing on sow productivity and welfare: review

The Effect of Housing on Sow and Piglet Welfare

The housing of sows is one of the most controversial issues of conventional pig production as there are many factors which may compromise the welfare of the animal. Growing numbers of countries are converting to loose housing for pregnant sows in the belief that it is beneficial to the pigs' welfare. Recent studies, however, comparing housing styles at different stages in the sow's reproductive...

designing unmanned aerial vehicle based on neuro-fuzzy systems

در این پایان نامه، کنترل نرو-فازی در پرنده هدایت پذیر از دور (پهپاد) استفاده شده است ابتدا در روش پیشنهادی اول، کنترل کننده نرو-فازی توسط مجموعه اطلاعات یک کنترل کننده pid به صورت off-line آموزش دیده است و در روش دوم یک کنترل کننده نرو-فازی on-line مبتنی بر شناسایی سیستم توسط شبکه عصبی rbf پیشنهاد شده است. سپس کاربرد این کنترل کننده در پهپاد بررسی شده است و مقایسه ای ما بین کنترل کننده های معمو...

Decision support system for overall welfare assessment in pregnant sows A: model structure and weighting procedure.

The problem of how to objectively assess the overall welfare status of animals under farming conditions has contributed to an ongoing debate that has hampered actual decision making on animal welfare. For this reason we constructed a model based on the assumed hierarchical organization of the animals' needs for overall welfare assessment in the case of pregnant sows. This model is implemented i...

Decision support system for overall welfare assessment in pregnant sows B: validation by expert opinion.

This paper examines the validity of a model that is embedded in a computer-based decision support system to assess the welfare status of pregnant sows in housing and management systems. The so-called SOWEL (SOw WELfare) model was constructed using a formalized procedure to identify and weight welfare-relevant attributes of housing systems in relation to the animal's needs, and evidenced by scie...