Pigs

Thanks to all that submitted comments, the public comment period has ended.

• DRAFT Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of PIGS - May 2013
• News Release: Concrete progress on Pig Code brings finish line into focus - Dec 2013
• Listen to Catherine Scovil presentation at the NFACC conference - Oct 2013
• Scientific Committee report - Review of scientific research on priority issues - Jul 2012
• Executive Summary: The Science of the Pig Code
• Overwhelming Number of Responses Received to Draft Pig Code of Practice - Aug 2013
• NFACC statement on the status of the pig Code’s development - Dec 2012
• Current Code of Practice for the care and handling of Pigs (1993) • Factsheet 
• Addendum Early Weaned Pigs (2003) 
• News Release: Pig Code of Practice to be Updated - Dec 2010

Code Development Progress

• Code Development Progress Report
• Overall Code timeline

Priority Welfare Issues List

The priority welfare issues are species specific and manageable topics that are considered to be important for animal welfare and will particularly benefit from a review of the available scientific literature.

The Code Development Committee (CDC) and the Scientific Committee (SC) each identify their respective lists. Once complete, the committees come together to collectively finalize the priority welfare issues for the species. The SC then reviews the scientific literature for each priority welfare issue and develops a report synthesizing the research results, summarizing the consensus (if any), and identifying any gaps requiring further research. See full SC Terms of Reference.

The CDC uses the SC report to develop requirements and recommendations around the priority welfare issues in the Code of Practice.

Following is the priority welfare issues list for the Pig Code of Practice update:

• Controlling pain: castration
• Methods of euthanasia
• Pig space allowance
• Sow housing
  
  • Group housing (floor feeding, electronic sow feeding, feeding stalls)
  • Sow stalls
• Social management of sows
• Space allowance – sows

Note: other welfare topics for the species will be covered by the CDC. The priority welfare issue list is comprised of issues that would particularly benefit from a review of the available scientific literature.

Committees

Pig Code Development Committee members

Participants are defined as per NFACC’s Code of Practice guidelines.

Pig Scientific Committee members

• Harold Gonyou (Chair)
• Nicolas Devillers
• Tina Widowski
• Luigi Facitano
• Tim Pasma
• Robert Friendship
• Nadine Ringgenberg (Research Writer)

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