Swine Research - Organic Production

Breed Selection Disease Management Feed Grazing and Pasture Management Housing Meat Quality Welfare

Breed Selection

• Breeding replacement gilts for organic pig herds
• Effect of breed on performance and meat quality of first parity sows in a seasonal organic rearing system
• Genotype–environment interactions for growth and carcass traits in different pig breeds kept under conventional and organic production systems
• Using rare breeds in organic farming systems

Disease Management

• NEW!! Survival and development of Ascaris suum and Trichuris suis eggs in deep-litter on an organic pig farm
• Controlling risks of pathogen transmission by flies on organic pig farms
• The effect of a diet with fructan-rich chicory roots on intestinal helminths and microbiota with special focus on Bifidobacteria and Campylobacter in piglets around weaning
• European Union Integrated Project "Quality Low Input Food"
  • Effects of production methods
  • Livestock production systems
• Organic Pig Husbandry Systems
• Prevention and treatment of parasitic infections in organic pigs

Feed

• Comparison of organic and conventional fed diets for grow-finish pigs
• Ethics of feeding: The omnivore dilemma
• Feeding weaned piglets and growing-finishing pigs with diets based on mainly home-grown organic feedstuffs
• Organic pig production – With particular reference to Danish production conditions
• Sustainable pig nutrition in organic farming: by-products from food processing as a feed resource

Grazing and Pasture Management

• Integrated forage and livestock production
• Integration of organic animal production into land use with special reference to swine and poultry
• Mineral load on the paddock of organic sows in the Netherlands
• Mixed grazing with heifers and pregnant sows

Housing

• Comparison of pig behaviour when given a sequence of enrichment objects or a chain continuously
• Influence of environmental enrichment on the behaviour, performance and meat quality of domestic pigs
• A longitudinal study of the effects of providing straw at different stages of life on tail-biting and other behaviour in commercially housed pigs
• Organic pig production – With particular reference to Danish production conditions
• Performance of gestating sows in bedded hoop barns and confinement stalls
• Review of wallowing in pigs: implications for animal welfare

Meat Quality

• Assessing impacts of organic production on pork and beef quality
• Chicory root improves the taste and odour of organic pork
• Enhancing pork flavor and fat quality with swine raised in sylvan systems: Potential niche-market application for the Ossabaw hog
• Feedlot performance, carcass composition and meat quality of free-range reared pigs
• Influence of environmental enrichment on the behaviour, performance and meat quality of domestic pigs
• The natural and organic pork market: a sustainable niche for small-scale producers ? A review and analysis of the evidence
• Naturally confused: consumers’ perceptions of all-natural and organic pork products
• Quality of meat
  

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