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The welfare of outdoor kept pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2023

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In the UK an increasing percentage of the pig breeding herd is being kept outdoors. Some surveys have suggested that perhaps 30 to 35 per cent of sows now spend all or a significant part of their year outside. They are usually kept in groups in paddocks containing a number of small moveable huts which have been designed and constructed to accommodate a breeding sow and her litter.

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Animal Welfare , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , February 1997 , pp. 77
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© 1997 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare