2026-04-18T07:56:12Zhttps://recercat.cat/oai/requestoai:recercat.cat:20.500.12327/4222025-10-22T11:32:11Zcom_2072_4428com_2072_4427col_2072_487898
RECERCAT
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Dalmau, Antoni
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Areal, Bruno
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Machado, Silvana
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Pallisera, Joaquim
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Velarde, Antonio
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Producció Animal
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Benestar Animal
2025-10-22T11:32:11Z
2025-10-22T11:32:11Z
2018-03-15
Antoni Dalmau, Bruno Areal, Silvana Machado, Joaquim Pallisera & Antonio Velarde (2019). "Does the location of enrichment material affect behavior and dirtiness in growing female pigs?", Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 22:2, 116-126, DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2018.1443816
1088-8705
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12327/422
https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2018.1443816
The objective of this study was to investigate if female growing pigs spend similar amounts of time exploring a wooden stick as they do exploring enrichment material regardless of its proximity to the feeder. Forty-eight pigs aged 18 to 26 weeks allocated to 16 pens with three pigs per pen were studied. Fifty percent of the pens had a wooden stick beside the feeder, and the rest had a similar stick opposite to the feeder. Two observers assessed the pigs by means of scan and focal sampling. The pigs spent more time (p < .0001) exploring the wood during the first week than during the rest of the study (10.9% vs 3.6%). The pigs with the wood close to the feeder spent less (p = .0001) time resting (29.9%) and more (p < .0001) time exploring (6.3%) the wood than did pigs with the wood opposite to the feeder (32.4% and 2.5%, respectively). In conclusion, a wooden stick placed close to the feeder was associated with more exploratory behaviorcompared with a similar stick placed opposite to the feeder.
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Does the location of enrichment material affect behavior and dirtiness in growing female pigs?
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