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  • Biogas Code of Practice Consultation Workshops

    APL has developed a risk based Code of Practice for On-farm Biogas Production and Use (Piggeries) in response to growing interest in Biogas technology from Australian pig producers.  APL, through a previous project identified that there was a lot of …

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  • 2015-2020 Strategic Plan Consultation

    The APL 2015–2020 Strategic Plan consultation process continues with all meetings across the country now completed. To all of those producers who attended meetings, APL thanks you for your contributions so far. APL would like to offer all producers that have …

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  • Corrective Statement

    Australian Pork Limited (APL) issued Media Releases on 11 April and 19 December 2012 concerning the progress of the Australian pork industry’s initiative to move away from the use of sow stalls by 2017. APL made statements in those Releases …

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  • Notice of AGM and Annual Conference

    The APL Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at the Marriott Hotel, cnr Exhibition and Lonsdale Streets, Melbourne on Thursday 21 November 2012. The Annual Conference will commence at 9.00am and the AGM will commence at 1.00pm. For …

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Complete Research Reports

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The Effects of Group Housing during Gestation on Sow Welfare and Reproduction

74 Pages
1 Apr 0011
Author(s): Prof Paul Hemsworth

This project examined the effects of housing sows in groups, mixed either immediately after mating or 6 weeks post-mating and housed either with or without feeding stalls, to develop strategies to reliably reduce aggression and stress in group-housed sows. The main findings revealed that groups of 10 sows had consistently lower injuries throughout the experiment, sow welfare improved as floor space allowance increases and the effects of space were most pronounced early after grouping. Injuries were higher in groups with shoulder feeding stalls and stress was higher in groups with shoulder feeding stalls after mating.

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