Alternative housing for sows and litters.: Part 4. Effects of sow-controlled housing combined with a communal piglet area on pre- and post-weaning behaviour and performance

By D. Weary, E. Pajor, Marjolaine Bonenfant, D. Fraser, D. Kramer. 2002

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Effects of early contact between non-littermate piglets and of the complexity of farrowing conditions on social behaviour and weight gain (2009, background): “, 2008), by enabling contact in a communal piglet area (Weary et al., 1999; Weary et al., 2002; Parratt et al., 2006) or by group housing systems for lactating sows (De Jonge et al.”
Parent–offspring resource allocation in domestic pigs (2007, background): “Piglets compensated for the reduced nursing frequency in "get away" housing by increasing their intake of solid feed before weaning (Pajor et al. 2002; Weary et al. 2002).”
Announcing the arrival of enrichment increases play behaviour and reduces weaning-stress-induced behaviours of piglets directly after weaning (2006, background): “…studies concentrate on counteracting the weaning-induced weight loss (for a review, see Lewis and Southern (2001)), while only few studies (e.g., Weary et al., 2002; Pitts et al., 2000; D’Eath, 2005; toys: Blackshaw et al., 1997; chain/rubber hose: Hill et al., 1998) concentrate on reducing…”
Understanding weaning distress (2008, background): “However, combining an enriched get-away area for piglets with getaway housing for sows reduces sow and piglet responses to weaning (Weary et al., 2002).”