Animal Health and Welfare Assessment of Pigs
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Welfare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 55
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pig welfare; farm management; pig health; infectious diseases; epidemiology
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Dear Colleagues,
The modern pig industry is driving the sector towards even more efficient animals and advanced management procedures, led by the genetic selection for more hyperprolific sows and the needs of reduced antimicrobial use, improved welfare, biosecurity in farms, and environmental sustainability. Because of these key goals of contemporary pig farming, several challenges have arisen for farmers in guaranteeing health and welfare for their animals. In this transitioning period, all physical and social stress for the pigs needs to be monitored and investigated, as they are capable of inducing either short- or long-term effects in pigs.
For this reason, quantifying and monitoring animal welfare and health across the entire life cycle (and over) is an important step towards driving the development of the pig sector. However, some areas need more research.
We are pleased to invite you to join this Special Issue, which will focus on recent research or reviews that investigate novel approaches and/or technologies used to evaluate the welfare and health of farmed pigs. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the development of measures suitable for determining whether animals have a positive emotional state, the development of novel biomarkers, the development of new benchmarking data, and the development of versatile and informative tools to communicate findings to a broad range of stakeholders.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Annalisa Scollo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pigs
- welfare
- health
- assessment
- biomarkers
- monitoring
- modern farming
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