改良条缝地板设计预计能提高母猪舒适度

来源：搜猪网 2016-07-15 09:39:50| 查看：次

　　CANADA - Researchers with the University of Manitoba hope to improve sow health and comfort by improving the design of slatted floors used in sow barns, writes Bruce Cochrane.As part of research being conducted in partnership with Swine Innovation Porc to develop tools to assist in transitioning to group sow housing, scientists with the University of Manitoba are evaluating new designs for slatted flooring, the concrete flooring that allows liquid manure to flow through the floor and into the manure pits.Dr Laurie Connor, the head of the University of Manitoba's Animal Science Department, explains if the gap between the slats is too wide the sows can get their feet caught, twist ankles or injure their claws.

　　布鲁斯·科克伦(Bruce Cochrane)写道，曼尼托巴大学的研究者们希望通过改良母猪猪圈中使用的条缝地板设计来提高母猪的健康与舒适服务。有一部分研究是和生猪创新组织合作开发工具，帮助群居母猪猪圈进行过渡。曼尼托巴大学科学家们正在对条缝地板的新设计进行评估，即混凝土制的地板允许液体厩肥通过地板进入粪便池。曼尼托巴大学动物学系的主任劳丽·康纳(Laurie Connor)博士解释说：“如果板条之间的缝隙太宽，母猪脚会陷进去，扭伤踝关节或者损伤蹄部。”

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