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1Animal Welfare Programme, IRTA, Veïnat de Sies s/n, 17121 Monells, Catalonia, Spain. emma.fabrega@irta.cat.
Animals : an Open Access Journal From MDPI
|September 27, 2019
Abstract:
Limitations to the fulfilment of ethological and physiological needs can cause countless negative effects on animal welfare and lead to the development of abnormal behaviours. From a very young age, pigs are strongly motivated to perform exploratory and foraging behaviour, even if they are provided with enough feed to satisfy their dietary needs [...].

