eprintid: 36384
rev_number: 17
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datestamp: 2019-08-26 10:45:25
lastmod: 2023-07-19 12:05:14
status_changed: 2019-08-26 10:45:25
type: bookchapter
metadata_visibility: show
doclang: en
projects: ch-ethz
projects: ch-fibl-advice
chapter: 14
refereed: yes
budget: 0
docurl: https://shop.bdspublishing.com/store/bds/detail/product/3-190-9781838796785
publicfulltext: FALSE
creators_name: Früh, Barbara
creators_name: Holinger, Mirjam
title: Organic pig farming: key characteristics, opportunities, advantages and challanges
ispublished: pub
subjects: 7animalhealth
subjects: 7pigs
keywords: pigs, housing systems, organic feeding, organic breeding
abstract: Organic pig production strives to provide housing and management conditions that guarantee a high level of animal health and welfare, sustainability, a closed soil–plant–animal cycle and produce high-quality products. This chapter discusses how housing of organic pigs affects welfare and the environment, and outlines how organic production systems are desperately in need of alternatives to feedstuffs that are in direct competition with human nutrition. The chapter examines why certain breeding goals should be adapted to organic conditions, and which health problems are typical for organic housing systems. Finally, the chapter shows how waiving of castration could be a challenge but also a chance for organic pig production and looks ahead to future research trends in this area.
date: 2019
date_type: published
publication: Improving organic animal farming
publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited
editors_name: Vaarst, Mette
editors_name: Roderick, Stephen
full_text_status: restricted
place_of_pub: Cambridge, UK
pagerange: 1-20
isbn: 978-1-78676-180-4
contact_email: barbara.frueh@fibl.org
conf_subm: not_subm
fp7_project: no
access_rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
citation:    Früh, Barbara and Holinger, Mirjam    (2019) Organic pig farming: key characteristics, opportunities, advantages and challanges.    In: Vaarst, Mette and Roderick, Stephen (Eds.)   Improving organic animal farming.  Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited, Cambridge, UK, chapter 14, pp. 1-20.         
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