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Kyle Moak's MSc Defence

Submitted by harwood on May 12th, 2021 3:37 PM
Date: 
Tuesday, May 18th, 2021 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
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The welfare of pigs during transport depends on many factors, but trailer design plays a key role in transport-related stress. Pot-belly trailers are commonly used for swine transportation in Canada but are criticized because of steep internal ramps causing difficulties during loading/unloading, and poor internal microclimate conditions. This results in a greater proportion of dead-on-arrivals and fatigued pigs compared to trailers using flat-deck designs. The objective of this study was to compare a standard pot-belly trailer to two novel trailer designs, both featuring fan-assisted ventilation and water misting (MPB and AFD) and one featuring flat-decks (AFD). Only a few modest differences were observed between pigs transported with different trailers, suggesting that loading pigs using a trailer with a flat deck design compared to trailers with standard ramp designs did not reduce loading stress, and trailers featuring fan-assisted ventilation and water misting did not effectively cool pigs during summer transits.  

Speaker: 
Kyle Moak
Event Type: 
Animal Biosciences [1]
Slides: 
PDF icon defence_notice_kyle_moak.pdf [2]
Abstract: 
PDF icon defence_notice_kyle_moak.pdf [3]
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[1] http://www.bert.aps.uoguelph.ca/event-type/animal-biosciences [2] http://www.bert.aps.uoguelph.ca/sites/default/files/defence_notice_kyle_moak.pdf [3] http://www.bert.aps.uoguelph.ca/sites/default/files/defence_notice_kyle_moak_0.pdf [4] http://www.bert.aps.uoguelph.ca/email-remind/default