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Differences in heart rate response at feeding between stall housed and group housed sows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

J.N. Marchant  and
A.R.Rudd
J.N. Marchant
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, CambridgeCB3 OES, UK.
A.R.Rudd
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, CambridgeCB3 OES, UK.
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The scientific assessment of farm animal welfare requires an amalgam of different measures of both physiology and behaviour. Behavioural measures are relatively easy to obtain but non-invasive measures of internal physiology are somewhat harder to achieve. An increase in the use of applied physiology in training regimes of human athletes, has led to an improved technology of heart rate monitors, making the measurement of heart rates painless and easy to record.

The objective of this experiment was to use a human heart rate monitor to investigate differences in heart rate response at feeding between sows housed in three different dry sow housing conditions. Schouten et al (1991) have demonstrated differences in heart rate response at feeding between loose-housed and tethered sows. In the study reported here, stall-housed sows were compared with sows housed in small groups and sows housed in a large group with an Electronic Feeder System (EFS).

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Pigs II
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1993: Winter meeting , March 1993 , pp. 17
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1993

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References

Schouten, W., Rushen, J. and De Passillé, A-M.B. (1991) Stereotypic behaviour and heart rate in pigs. Physiol.& Behav. 50 617–624.Google Scholar