The experiment aimed to investigate the effect of type of rooting material and space allowance on explorative and abnormal behaviour in growing pigs. Thirty-six pens with partly slatted concrete floor ...

Providing research pigs with enrichment objects can encourage species-typical behavior such as rooting and foraging. The authors gave pigs hard plastic 'foraging balls' that resembled enrichment ...

Rooting behaviour appears to be a behavioural need that is performed irrespectively of feeding level or nutritive feedback. This suggests that a suitable rooting substrate should be provided even for ...