eprintid: 51953
rev_number: 32
eprint_status: archive
userid: 49571
dir: disk0/00/05/19/53
datestamp: 2024-03-11 15:04:31
lastmod: 2024-03-11 15:04:31
status_changed: 2024-03-11 15:04:31
type: tool
metadata_visibility: show
doclang: en
country: CH
projects: ch-fibl-pigs
projects: eu
projects: eu-ofk
budget: 0
projectid: ofk
altloc: https://www.fibl.org/de/shop/1273-weaning-piglets
altloc: https://organic-farmknowledge.org/tool/51953
publicfulltext: TRUE
creators_name: Früh, Barbara
creators_name: Helbing, Manuela
creators_name: Oehen, Bernadette
creators_id: bernadette.oehen@fibl.org
corp_creators: FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
title: Successful weaning of piglets – without antimicrobial use (ROADMAP practice abstract)
ispublished: pub
subjects: 7animalhealth
subjects: 7pigs
keywords: Piglets, AMU, Animal health, Animal Handling
abstract: Recent analysis of antibiotics usage in organic pig farming in Switzerland showed that the weaning period is the most critical moment concerning antibiotical use for pigs. To ease the weaning period, it is possible to mitigate all stress factors apart from the weaning itself and ensure proper feed intake.
date: 2023
date_type: completed
series: Roadmap Practice Abstracts
institution: FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
tool_type: 3
tool_problem: In nature, sows would wean their piglets at the age of 13 – 17 weeks. However, in organic pig production in Switzerland, they are weaned at the earliest age of 6 weeks.
In conventional farming systems piglets are weaned even earlier, at the ages of 3 – 4 weeks.
This causes a significant disruption in the life of the piglet leading, among other things, to diarrhoea.Reduce antibiotic use in animal husbandry.
tool_solution: Improving the handling of weaning piglets.
full_text_status: public
contact_email: bernadette.oehen@fibl.org
conf_subm: not_subm
voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en
voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en
voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en
voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: piglets
voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: animal health
voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: animal husbandry
voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5872
voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_431
voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8532
fp7_project: yes
fp7_project_id: 817626
access_rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
citation:          {Tool}   Successful weaning of piglets – without antimicrobial use (ROADMAP practice abstract).          Creator(s): Früh, Barbara; Helbing, Manuela and Oehen, Bernadette.  Issuing Organisation(s): FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture.  Roadmap Practice Abstracts. (2023)    
document_url: /id/eprint/51953/1/ROADMAP%20Practice%20Abstract_Ferkel.pdf
document_url: /id/eprint/51953/3/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20at%204.04.05%E2%80%AFPM.png