Lantbruks- och trädgårdsföretagarnas egen forskningsstiftelse finansierar behovsdriven forskning för svenska förhållanden.
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Lantbruks- och trädgårdsföretagarnas egen forskningsstiftelse finansierar behovsdriven forskning för svenska förhållanden.
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Status: | Pågående |
Projektnummer: | JTI-20-82-482 |
Kategori: | S-JTI | Klimat-, miljö- och produktionsutmaningar |
Ansökningsår: | 2020 |
Huvudsökande: | Cecilia Lindahl |
Organisation: | RISE Research Institutes of Sweden |
E-postadress: | cecilia.lindahl@ri.se |
Telefon: | 010-516 69 38 |
Medsökande: | Charlotta Löfström |
Medsökande: | Cecilia Hagberg |
Heat stress is expected to be of major concern in Swedish animal production systems in the future. The air temperatures in parts of Sweden are expected to correspond to today's temperatures in southern Europe, where livestock experience heat stress today. Excessive thermal load affects the welfare and health of pigs negatively. Confined pigs have limited physiological and behavioural abilities to loose heat. In an effort to loose heat during warmer periods pigs often choose to lay on the cooler slatted floor resulting in pen fouling, increased workload, disturbance of the pigs' resting behaviour and increased agonistic behaviours. Pen fouling also has negative impacts on the air quality (ammonia, airborne bacteria and respirable particles). Floor cooling in pens for fattening pigs has the potential to enhance the thermal and gaseous environment in the fattening pig barns resulting in improved pig welfare, performance and health as well as the working environment.
Värmestress förväntas bli ett stort problem inom svensk animalieproduktion i framtiden. Lufttemperaturerna i delar av Sverige förväntas motsvara dagens temperaturer i södra Europa där produktionsdjur upplever värmestress idag. Bl.a. påverkar alltför hög värmebelastning grisars välfärd och hälsa negativt. Inhysta grisar har begränsade fysiologiska och beteendemässiga möjligheter att göra sig av med överskottsvärme. Redan idag väljer ofta grisarna att lägga sig på det svalare spaltgolvet under varma perioder. Detta leder till nedsmutsning av boxarna, ökad arbetsbelastning, störning av grisarnas vilobeteende och ökade agonistiska beteenden. Smutsiga boxgolv har även en negativ inverkan på stallmiljön som påverkar grisarnas hälsa samt arbetsmiljön negativt. Golvkylning i boxar till slaktsvin har potential att förbättra den termiska och gasformiga miljön i slaktsvinsavdelningar som i sin tur leder till förbättrad djurvälfärd, produktion och hälsa likväl som förbättrad arbetsmiljö.
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