Livestock housing meets behavioural needs

Type: Effect

Links from: Item Link details Pigs must have permanent access to a sufficient quantity of material such as straw, hay, wood, sawdust, mushroom compost or peat to enable proper investigation and manipulation activities Poultry must have permanent access to sufficient quantities of roughage and suitable material in order to meet their ethological needs

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Links to: Link details Item Livestock are free to express normal behaviour

Defra Project IF0131
Assessment of reduction in environmental burdens through targeted measures compared with whole farm approaches in cropping and livestock systems
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Friday 30 October 2009