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Combined pasture and housing systems in Italy: year-round access to pasture for growing-finishing pigs

Bochicchio, Davide (2022) Combined pasture and housing systems in Italy: year-round access to pasture for growing-finishing pigs. POWER-Factsheet, no. 3.8. Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, CH-Frick.

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Summary

On this best practice farm in Italy organic pregnant sows, a boar, weaners and growing-finishing pigs are kept on pasture all year round. This publication presents pasture management and costs as well as the Core Organic Cofund project POWER’s assessment of productivity, animal welfare and environmental impact of this farm.


EPrint Type:Report
Keywords:pigs, animal welfare, housing, POWER
Agrovoc keywords:
Language
Value
URI
English
pigs -> swine
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7555
English
housing
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3678
English
animal welfare
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_443
Subjects: Animal husbandry > Health and welfare
Animal husbandry > Production systems > Pigs
Research affiliation: European Union > CORE Organic > CORE Organic Cofund > POWER
Italy > CREA
Horizon Europe or H2020 Grant Agreement Number:727495
Deposited By: Krähenbühl, Serina
ID Code:43634
Deposited On:15 Feb 2022 08:28
Last Modified:20 Jul 2022 11:38
Document Language:English
Status:Published
Refereed:Not peer-reviewed

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