ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2022
The Social Life of Pigs: Changes in Affiliative and Agonistic Behaviors following Mixing.
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- Behavioral Transition Path and Pivotal Nodes Regulating Attack in Initial Encounters between Unfamiliar Pigs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Pattern Mining-Based Pig Behavior Analysis for Health and Welfare Monitoring.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The construction of a measure of behavioural complexity as a potential individual-based welfare indicator and its theoretical validation.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024Article
- Hierarchy Establishment in Growing Finishing Pigs: Impacts on Behavior, Growth Performance, and Physiological Parameters.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
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Abstract
This study investigated potentially affiliative behaviors in grow-finish pigs, how these behaviors changed over time and their relationship to agonistic behaviors. A total of 257 Yorkshire barrows were observed for agonistic (reciprocal fights, attacks) and affiliative (nosing, play, non-agonistic contact) behaviors after mixing (at 10 weeks of age), and weeks 3, 6, and 9 after mix. The least square means of affiliative behaviors were compared across time points. Relationships among affiliative and agonistic behaviors were assessed using generalized linear mixed models. Non-agonistic contact with conspecifics increased until week 6 then remained stable between weeks 6 and 9. Nosing was highest at mix, then decreased in the following weeks. Play was lowest at mix and highest at week 3. Affiliative behaviors were negatively related with aggression at mix (
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