Breeding for behavioural traits may improve pig welfare and breeding high production decrease welfare. Maternal behaviours important piglet includes savaging, crushing nursing. Behaviours of importance pigs slaughter feeding behaviour, tail biting aggressive behaviour. These are complex large amounts data needed accurate genetic evaluation selection.

BACKGROUND A measure of the proportion of deliveries assisted by skilled attendants is one of the indicators of progress towards achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, which aims at improving maternal health. This study aimed at establishing delivery practices and associated factors among mothers seeking child welfare services at selected health facilities in Nyandarua South district, K...

In domestic chickens, the provision of maternal care strongly influences the behavioural development of chicks. Mother hens play an important role in directing their chicks' behaviour and are able to buffer their chicks' response to stressors. Chicks imprint upon their mother, who is key in directing the chicks' behaviour and in allowing them to develop food preferences. Chicks reared by a moth...

The high pre-weaning mortality in farm animal species and poor welfare conditions of reproductive females question modern industrial farming acceptability. A growing body of literature has been produced recently, investigating the impact of maternal stress during gestation on maternal and offspring physiology and behavior in farm animals. Until now, the possible impact of prenatal stress on neo...

Maternal behaviour, infanticide and welfare in enclosed European wild boars (Sus scrofa) Andersson, A. 2010. Maternal behaviour, infanticide and welfare in enclosed European wild boars (Sus scrofa). To my daughter My V ABSTRACT European wild boars (Sus scrofa) are kept in Swedish enclosures for hunting and meat production purposes. The sows are known to undergo behavioural changes in connection...

Providing economic and social security has been one of the fundamental features of state activity in Iceland during the 20th century. The rise of modern social politics occurred at about the same time as in the other Nordic countries, towards the end of the 19th century, in response to upheavals associated with industrialization, urbanization and labour-force differentiation. The impulses behin...

BACKGROUND Reductions in maternal smoking can prevent pregnancy complications and adverse effects to foetus. Our objective was to study how the prevalence of maternal smoking differs between Nordic countries, and to identify target groups for smoking-cessation interventions. METHODS Information on maternal smoking and background factors was requested from the Nordic countries (the Danish Nati...

policies and programs, even though children comprise a majority of public assistance recipients. In 1995, about twothirds of those receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children each month were children.1 Moreover, key provisions in the most recent welfare legislation, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), have implications for children. Based ...