Avaliação do comportamento e desempenho de suínos na fase da creche com enriquecimento ambiental em dois sistemas de criação

Abstract

Two ways to overcome the limitation of animal welfare can be considered: the environmental enrichment, which consists of improving the facilities with the goal of making the environment more suited to behavioral needs of the animals, and the search for systems promoters of animal welfare.The environmental enrichment becomes a proposal for low cost and possible for any producer, because the techniques are simple and viable for any scale of production. the present study aimed to evaluate the performance and the behavior of the animals toward the use of four different treatments, being two systems of creation (in deep beeding and in floor ripped) and two environmental enrichment (with introduction of toys with and without rotation).The experiment was carried out in the living room of daycare center, the pig farm, the Federal Institute Farroupilha (IFF), Campus São Vicente do Sul. Each lot remained housed in a bay, with the same dimensions, equipped with automatic feeders and drinkers of type pacifier. The treatments used in the experiment involved the use of toys, with and without rotation, in animals distributed in two types of floor, plastic and deep beeding. Each batch was observed for 15 minutes and had the positions of piglets recorded in a spreadsheet. Results of greatest interest occurred on day 14 and 15, in which the piglets will remain showing interest by toys With the present study, it was found that the effectiveness of environmental enrichment, and the rotation of toys keeps the attractiveness of piglets.