Optimising sow and piglet welfare during farrowing and lactation

Optimising sow and piglet welfare during farrowing and lactationOptimising welfare in the farrowing and lactation environment involves resolving the concerns regarding continued use of close confinement systems, such as the farrowing crate for the sows and the lack of provision of environmental enrichment to provide for behavioural needs. For piglets the main welfare and health issues surround high levels of piglet mortality and the pre disposing risk factors associated with them. Some of these risk factors, such

IWM is a part of integrated pest management (IPM) and adoption of IWM is an important driver for IPM

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The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett’s poetics through the notion of ‘nothing’

This book provides for the first time an analysis of how and why HIAs informed local policy development in both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

no-nonsense guide to demystify and equip any information professional with the tools to start their own data-driven decision practice

It estimates the biomass potential of hedgerows in this area and demonstrates the application of a restoration and management strategy to selected hedgerows under two different scenarios

ranging from artificial point-source objects to social and cognitive enrichment

who had a claim to the thrones of both England and Scotland

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She went on to work in London as a nurse after the war

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‘New Lithuania in Old Hands’ examines the impact Lithuania’s EU membership has had upon the country’s ageing small-scale farmers