{"id":9321,"date":"2016-03-18T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/?page_id=9321"},"modified":"2017-06-14T15:58:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T14:58:22","slug":"pig-welfare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/US\/health-welfare\/pigs\/pig-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Pig Welfare Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9325\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/RSPCApigwelfare.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9325\" class=\"wp-image-9325 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PigWelfare2-208x300.png\" alt=\"PigWelfare2\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PigWelfare2-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PigWelfare2-710x1024.png 710w, https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/PigWelfare2.png 923w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Read this RSPCA technical sheet for more information on the welfare of pigs<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Pig Welfare Assessment<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>To ensure we are improving farm animal welfare we need to be able to measure it. Measuring welfare enables us to know what level is being achieved on-farm and therefore better understand what impact the resources being provided and management practices being implemented are having on the anim<\/em>al&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.assurewel.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.assurewel.org<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/veterinary-questions\/welfare-assessment\/\">Animal Welfare Assessment <\/a>page in Veterinary Questions to find out more about welfare assessment and visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.assurewel.org\" target=\"_blank\">AssureWel <\/a>website for practical information on assessing the welfare of pigs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pork.ahdb.org.uk\/health-welfare\/welfare\/real-welfare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Real Welfare <\/a>project involves on-farm assessment of pig welfare using a set of five objective and repeatable measures. These measures are known as \u2018welfare outcomes\u2019 which are animal-based, meaning that they are obtained from the animals themselves, rather than from their environment. These measures include numbers of pigs that would benefit from removal to hospital pen, lame pigs, pigs with tail lesions, pigs with body lesions and the amount of enrichment provision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10599,"parent":640,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9321"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11682,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9321\/revisions\/11682"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmhealthonline.com\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}