This review gives an overview of the motivation behind nest building behaviour and its behavioural elements. The review also describes how lack of ability to nest build influences maternal behaviour and sow and piglet welfare. Finally, it describes which materials can be provided for nest building when sows are kept confined in crates or zero confinement systems.
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This factsheet explains how bringing a team of farmer, vet, feed and farm advisors together is sharing different sources of knowledge together, making the Multi Actor Farm Health approach an effective approach to improve biosecurity on poultry farms
An infographic providing a compact overview on Polish company approach to recycle organic waste and by-products.
This factsheet presents the biosecurity audit tool Biocheck Ugent, that can give a biosecurity scoring in poultry farms to measure biosecurity level.