Abstract
With increasing concern over animal welfare, straw yards are being re-evaluated as a less-intensive system of rearing pigs. Typically they may comprise an open span building with minimal environmental control and deep straw bedding for the thermal and behavioural needs of the animals. This contrasts with many intensive buildings which would have some degree of climatic control and fully-slatted concrete floors with no bedding of any kind. The aim of this experiment was to compare the performance and behaviour of growing-finishing pigs in straw yards with a fully-slatted building. The two systems are outlined in Table 1.
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