The process of weaning is a multifactorial stressor, in which nutritional, social, physical and psychologic stressors are combined. The aim of this study was to examine whether litters' let-together system or "kindergarten-system" in the farrowing house before weaning has any effect weight gain...

The concepts of animal welfare, environmental movement and health awareness have spread through developed countries around the world. For this reason, new legislative requirements and new consumer needs have appeared both in livestock and in egg production. Consumers buy eggs at an increasing...

Background: Cage-free egg production methods are advancing in the European Union due to stringent housing regulations, animal welfare and consumer pressure. A changing production environment requests novel adaptation strategies of which the development of specific layer hybrids or strains is...

With the urbanization and the development of society, welfare, as a concept comes into view day by day. Welfare is questioned mostly when we talk about intensive animal production. It is not different in the aquaculture sector. The welfare is described by the literature on function-, nature-, and...

This experiment was conducted in 240 Pannon white growing rabbits of both sexes housed in a closed building with a temperature of 16-17°C using a light regime of 16L/8D. The rabbits were housed in 80-cm high open top pens, each with a basic area of 50 × 170 cm. Depending on the time of deep litter...

According to surveys, more than 20% of Hungarians keep dogs, so the need to operate dog boarding houses has also increased. As a result, a significant number of animal boarding houses were established in Hungary too. The aim of the research is to get a statistically comprehensive picture of the...

Different regulations control certain parameters of animal production (e.g. stocking density) but for many housing technology elements, there are no regulations set. Our aim was to survey the technology of fifteen different duck raising (N) or duck force-feeding farms (T) or duck raising and...

The introduction of European Union's rules regarding animal welfare in 1998 (XXVIII Act on protection and sparing of animals) significantly affected Hungarian breeders in many branches. Most radical transformation that arose from animal welfare regulations was the one for poultry generally and...

The does were housed according to the recommendation of an animal protection group, called Four Paws. Four does (one of them was older than the others) and one buck were placed to a pen with a basic area of 7.7 m2. Within the pen, one part of the floor (2.8×1.5 m) was covered with straw, and the...

The authors' aim was to review the housing technology of suckling cows in Hungary and variant solutions related to housing system. Summer and winter housing- and feeding systems for cows were introduced. Preparation for calving and related tasks were detailed, and calf care was described....