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Evaluating the impact of early life management of piglets on lifetime welfare and performance

Ken Engele
Ethology
April 28, 2023

The early life experience of piglets before and around weaning can influence their behavioural  adaptation and the development of positive or negative behavioural characteristics that have  significant, and likely lasting, implications for welfare, stress resilience and production  performance. This research will determine whether providing targeted adjustments to management at specific sensitive periods in the piglets’ development, could offer a simple and  effective method of benefitting the welfare, health and productivity of pigs.  Working within the context of the pig’s development and physiology could potentially provide an avenue for  optimizing cost effectiveness and benefits of enrichments and can identify management  strategies to help optimize welfare within modern fully-slatted systems of production.  Supporting the overall resilience of the pig will simultaneously help to support goals to help reduce antibiotic use and support production in the face of common stressors experienced in the production system.

Evaluating the impact of early life management

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Research Areas
EngineeringEthologyManagementMediaNutritionOntario PorkProductionSwine Innovation Porc

Engineering

  • Optimizing temperature requirements of pigs to reduce energy use in swine production
  • Investment cost and payback period of a modified prototype livestock trailer
  • Alternative energy and heating sources

Nutrition

  • Transepithelial ion transport in the stomach of pigs exposed to gastric ulcer conditions
  • Developing an Indigestible Protein Index to Investigate the Effects of Dietary Protein in Pigs
  • Impact of fibre on performance and intestinal health of pigs fed a high indigestible protein level

Ethology

  • The influence of straw enrichment on hair hormone concentrations, behaviour, and productivity of growing pigs
  • Rearing pigs with play opportunities: The effects on disease resilience in pigs experimentally inoculated with PRRSV
  • Promoting play behaviour in grow-finish pigs

Management

  • Quality of Life Handbook – The use of environmental enrichment
  • Seek and you shall find; The value of postmortem, in pigs?
  • P1 development strategies for peak performance

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