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The effects of increased dietary salt concentration on performance and behaviour of finishing pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

V.E. Beattie  and
R.N. Weatherup
V.E. Beattie
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Hillsborough Co Down, BT26 6DR
R.N. Weatherup
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Hillsborough Co Down, BT26 6DR
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Tail-biting is a behavioural vice with important welfare, economic and carcass quality implications observed in growing pigs. Fraser (1987) proposed that mineral deficiencies in the diet may be related to tail-biting while Beattie et al (1996) found that tail-biting did not occur in intensive housing when pigs had access to a rooting substrate. This study compared the effects on pig performance and behaviour of increased dietary salt concentration with a negative control (standard diet, no rooting substrate) and a positive control (standard diet, rooting substrate provided).

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2000 , 2000 , pp. 6
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2000

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Beattie, V.E., Walker, N. and Sneddon, I.A. (1996). A method of enrichment for intensive housing of growing pigs. Proceedings British Society of Animal Science, (Winter meeting), Scarborough, pp 203.Google Scholar
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