Active feeding control and environmental enrichment with call-feeding-stations

G. Manteuffel

Active feeding control and environmental enrichment with call-feeding-stations

于Precision livestock farming '09

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G. Manteuffel

G. Manteuffel FBN Dummerstorf, Unit Behavioural Physiology, Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2, 18196 Dummerstorf, Germany; manteuff@fbn-dummerstorf.de

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Page Range:: 283–288

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086866632_035

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Supplying pigs in intensive housing with an emotionally positive challenge can increase the animals’ experienced control over the environment. Since pigs have well-developed auditory functions and a comparatively high cognitive capacity the new system calls an animal living in a group with an individual acoustic summons to a feeding place. Groups of eight pigs at an age of 7 weeks were subjected to an experimental test, which lasted until the 20^th week. The experiment was repeated with 6 groups. For comparison a control group of equal age and size was kept without the experimental equipment. This consisted of four ‘Call-Feeding-Stations’ (CFS) integrated into the pen. The CFS played the individual jingles and delivered feed if the called animal entered. The animals were pre-trained for their individual jingle as a summons during 1 week where the jingle was coupled with feeding in a classical conditioning paradigm. When active calling started the pigs reached a correct response rate of 82% within 4 days (daily feed allowance was adjusted to 80%). The animals displayed significantly less maladaptive behaviour (belly nosing) compared to the controls and a significant better healing of experimental skin lesions. They fed undisturbed by group mates who had never associated the jingle of a called individual with feeding. The results indicate that the CFS-technique integrated in pigs’ feeding routine seems to increase animal welfare. CFS improve the capacity of management as individuals can be called so that competitive fighting when waiting for entrance to an automatic feeder can be prevented. The emotionally positive challenge of acting for being reliably rewarded may also increase animal health and improve general behavioural traits and reduce the general stress level.

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Precision livestock farming '09

ISBN:: 9789086866632

出版社:: Wageningen Academic

印刷出版日期:: 30 Oct 2009

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  - Animal & Veterinary

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