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Expert opinion: common indestructible materials are not proper enrichment for pigs at all

New research shows that chains and indestructible objects may reduce rather than improve pig welfare, but what alternatives do experts suggest?

27 March 2019

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By: The Pig Site

This is a chain reaching to floor level where the chain may be ‘rooted’ or manipulated while lying down, and to which two short pieces of chain have been attached such that ends of a chain are available at nose height to pigs of different sizes or age groups for manipulation while standing. Note, however, that this is a presumably inferior-type of c-chain, not a recommended stainless-steel anchor-chain — This is a chain reaching to floor level where the chain may be ‘rooted’ or manipulated while lying down, and to which two short pieces of chain have been attached such that ends of a chain are available at nose height to pigs of different sizes or age groups for manipulation while standing. Note, however, that this is a presumably inferior-type of c-chain, not a recommended stainless-steel anchor-chain
© Marc BM Bracke and Paul Koene, 2019

References
References
Marc BM Bracke and Paul Koene
(2019)	Expert opinion on metal chains and other indestructible objects as proper enrichment for intensively-farmed pigs. PloS one, 14(2), p.e0212610.

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