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A Survey on Using of Farrowing Accommodation and Farrowing Crate in Swine Farm  

Jeon, Jung-Hwan (National Institute of Animal Science, R.D.A.)
Song, Jun-Ik (National Institute of Animal Science, R.D.A.)
Jeon, Byoung-Soo (National Institute of Animal Science, R.D.A.)
Chung, Eui-Soo (National Institute of Animal Science, R.D.A.)
Choi, Hee-Chul (National Institute of Animal Science, R.D.A.)
Kang, Hee-Seol (National Institute of Animal Science, R.D.A.)
Kim, Doo-Hwan (Department of Animal Resources Technology, Jinju National University)
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Journal of Animal Environmental Science / v.16, no.2, 2010 , pp. 129-134 More about this Journal
Abstract
This survey was carried out to investigate the dimensions of farrowing accommodation and farrowing crate by types. Farrowing crates are used to prevent the crushing death in the swine industry generally but farrowing crates include many problems in the animal welfare viewpoint: e.g. restriction of movements and maternal instincts. Therefore, the studies of alternative systems have been discussed for a while in U.K., U.S.A. and Canada. We surveyed eight farms for about eight months. To accurately compare the farrowing housing, small scale swine farms (3,000hd or less) were excluded from all data in this survey. Lactating accommodations were divided into vertical lactating accommodation type and diagonal accommodation type, and farrowing crates were divided into vertical bar type and horizontal bar type. In this survey, nipple waterer, partial slotted floor and total slotted floor were 80%, 40% and 60% respectively, and the lactating accommodations' dimensions ranged from 3.90 to $4.92\;m^2$. We believe that these data of the survey contribute to develop alternative systems and then contribute to improve the animal welfare in Korea.
Keywords
Animal welfare; Farrowing crate; Lactating sow; Suckling piglet;
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