Final report for Project no. 1904. Prevention of selected diseases and parasites in organic pig hreds - by means of HACCP based management and surveillance programme (CorePig)

The project partners comprised about 20 researchers from 9 research institutes in eight countries (DK, DE, SE, UK, CH, IT, AU and FR). The project is composed of three work packages: WP1 „Coordination of the project, dissemination and Knowledge synthesis‟, WP2: „Epidemiological study in organic herds‟ and WP3: „Development and evaluation of a HACCP based surveillance and management system‟. WP1 and WP2 started in 2007, while WP3 that built on the results from WP1 and WP2 started later - in 2008. The UK and CH-partners only participated in WP1 and WP3 while the remaining partners participated in all three WP‟s. The project was initiated at the project kick-off meeting in Denmark, August 30-31st 2007, where all project partners met to discuss the planning of the project in detail. Further 6 project meetings were carried out in the project period. The second project meeting was organised in Austria, December 10-11th 2007, the third project meeting in Denmark, February 18-19th 2008, the fourth in France, July 7-9th 2008, the fifth in Italy, December 4.-7th 2008, the sixth in Sweden, June 29-30th 2009 and the final and seventh project meeting took place in Germany, April 7-10th 2010

COREPIG

Prevention of selected diseases and parasites in organic pig herds - by means of a HACCP based management and survelliance programme

Herd health surveillance and management in an integrated HACCP based system

Future herd health management systems need to focus on precaution and documentation of how product and process failures are prevented. HACCP-based herd health surveillance schemes have been developed for dairy cattle herds, organic pig and egg production systems and for mink production in Denmark. The generic part of such systems, including definition of hazards and risk factors, can be developed through expert opinion panels. The development of sets of control points, alarm values and corrective actions need typically to be farm specific. On-farm systems focusing on broad topics such as animal welfare and food safety tend to grow too big to be operational. It is suggested that a part of the system is controlled through ‘good management practice’ leaving only a few hazards to be controlled by control points, alarm values and corrective actions

PROPIG

Farm specific strategies to reduce environmental impact by improving health, welfare and nutrition of organic pig

Ny håndbog i øko-svins velfærd kan nu bestilles

En ny håndbog til de økologiske svineproducenter kan gøre dem bedre til at forebygge sygdomme og velfærdsproblemer hos både søer, smågrise og slagtesvin. Bogen er et overskueligt, lamineret opslagsværk, som man kan tage med i stalden. Ved hjælp af tjeklister gøde den det muligt at identificere årsagerne til sygdom og velfærdsproblemer og giver i oversigtsform forslag til, hvordan problemerne kan afhjælpes

Influence of professional affiliation on expert’s view on welfare measures

The present study seeks to investigate the influence of expert affiliation in the weighing procedures within animal welfare assessments. Experts are often gathered with different backgrounds with differing approaches to animal welfare posing a potential pitfall if affiliation groups are not balanced in numbers of experts. At two time points (2012 and 2016), dairy cattle and swine experts from four different stakeholder groups, namely researchers (RES), production advisors (CONS), practicing veterinarians (VET) and animal welfare control officers (AWC) were asked to weigh eight different welfare criteria: Hunger, Thirst, Resting comfort, Ease of movement, Injuries, Disease, Human-animal bond and Emotional state. A total of 54 dairy cattle experts (RES = 15%, CONS = 22%, VET = 35%, AWC = 28%) and 34 swine experts (RES = 24%, CONS = 35%, AWC = 41%) participated. Between—and within—group differences in the prioritization of criteria were assessed. AWC cattle experts differed consistently from the other cattle expert groups but only significantly for the criteria Hunger (p = 0.04), and tendencies towards significance within the criteria Thirst (p = 0.06). No significant differences were found between expert groups among swine experts. Inter-expert differences were more pronounced for both species. The results highlight the challenges of using expert weightings in aggregated welfare assessment models, as the choice of expert affiliation may play a confounding role in the final aggregation due to different prioritization of criteria

Mangfoldighed på nutidens arbejdspladser - Plads til personlige forskelle

Denne artikels formål er at nuancere forståelsen af begreberne mangfoldighed og mangfoldighedsledelse på nutidens arbejdspladser. Artiklen tager udgangspunkt i en empirisk undersøgelse og udsagn fra tre introverte medarbejdere og forholder sig til, hvorledes personlige forskelle kan forstås, som en del af mangfoldighedsbegrebet. Udsagn fra de tre adspurgte medarbejdere anvendes til eksemplificering i diskussionen af følgende begreber; mangfoldighed, mangfoldighedsledelse og kultur, set i forhold til introverte på arbejdspladsen

Ny håndbog for økologiske svineproducenter viser vej til bedre dyrevelfærd og mindre miljøpåvirkning

Økologiske svineproducenter kan forbedre sundhed og velfærd hos grisene og mindske miljøbelastning fra bedriften som helhed, uden at det kræver investeringer af betydning. De kan opnå forbedringer alene ved at ændre praksis på en række områder, viser det fælleseuropæiske forskningsprojekt "ProPig". I alt var 74 økologiske svineproducenter i Østrig, Tjekkiet, Tyskland, Danmark, Frankrig, Italien, Sverige og Storbritannien med i projektet Pro-Pigs - et Core Organic projekt, som er koordineret af ICROFS. På alle bedrifter blev der indsamlet data vedrørende husdyrsundhed, -velfærd, produktivitet, fodring og miljøbelastning ved hjælp af særligt software, som er udviklet i projektet. Landmændene var selv med til at udvælge de indsatsområder, de ville arbejde med at forbedre. Valget faldt på tværs af landene oftest på reproduktion, ernæring og sundhed

Fremtidens udfordringer i økologisk og frilandssvineproduktion

I juni deltog 48 svineproducenter, rådgivere og forskere i en temadag på Hovborg Kro om økologisk svineproduktion. Temaet var "fremtidens udfordringer i økologisk og frilands svineproduktion". Dagen bød på indlæg fra fem forskningsprojekter og efterfølgende café-diskussion med fokus på miljø, dyrevelfærd, selvforsyning med protein og produktion af hangrise. Her bringes et uddrag af diskussionen