Alternatives to castration of piglets
Why castrate male piglets? About 4% of male pigs or "intact boars" have boar taint. This is an unpleasant odor or taste found in pork and fat. Boar ta...
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Precision livestock farming
...monitoring individual animals, for dairy and beef cattle, as well as for pigs and even poultry sporadically. Problems can be detected and solved fa...
Animal welfare
Research into the optimal housing and management of pigs, cattle, poultry and rabbits alike should improve the quality of life.
Managing variation within a batch of fattening pigs to optimize performance and minimize losses
This project investigates effective and cost-efficient strategies to deal with this variation in fattening pigs.
...l introductionA high variation in body weight between individual finishing pigs within a same batch is associated with economic and ecological cost...
From black box to slaughter hook: Rational feeding of pigs via data sharing
Potential (research) approach to reduce/stop routine tail docking and keeping pigs with long(er) tails
Potential (research) approach to reduce/stop routine tail docking and keeping pigs with long(er) tails
...e actions proposed to reduce routine tail docking and encourage rearing of pigs with intact tails with the aim of elaborating concrete short-, medi...
Usefulness of deep groundwater as a water source for pigs
...tion is to what extent there would be (negative) effects, particularly for pigs (sows and piglets), if they were to use this water on a daily basis...
Gut health
...ition and digestive physiology is applied to specific target groups and to pigs as a model in order to investigate the link between nutrition, the ...
The interaction between nutrition and gut health is being investigated in (mini) pigs as a model for humans.
Efficient management of the pig farm through individual follow-up of sows and fattening pigs (PIGID)
Electronic tracking of individual fattening pigs from birth to slaughter is already technically possible
General introductionElectronic tracking of individual fattening pigs from birth to slaughter is already technically possible. This project, performed ...
Heat plan for Flemish pig farming
...peratures in Belgium can lead to heat stress in several animal species but pigs are particularly sensitive to this. In recent years, pig farmers ha...