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Title Survey Production Health Welfare Outdoor Pig Farms Ireland
Description Survey of 40 questions answered by 90 participants that raised pigs outdoor in the island of Ireland for personal or commercial purposes. Single choice, multiple choices and open questions cover the following topics:demography, husbandry, feed and water management, animal health management and, farmer attitudes and perceptions of the outdoor pig industry.
License CC-BY-NC
Teagasc Department Pig Development
Teagasc Programme Animal and Grassland
Language English
Principal Investigator (PI) Dr Keelin O'Driscoll
Principal Investigator (PI) email Keelin.ODriscoll@teagasc.ie
Data creator(s)
  1. Ophélie Menant
Geographic coverage Ireland and Northern Ireland
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.82253/21db-6667
Citation Menant, O., O’Driscoll, K., Boyle, L., Mullan, S. and Butler, F. (2025) Survey on production, health and welfare of outdoor pig farms in Ireland [Dataset]. Teagasc Open Data Platform. Available at: https://opendata.teagasc.ie/. doi: https://doi.org/10.82253/21db-6667
Rights notes This data is shared under a CC-BY-NC license. It enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. CC BY-NC includes the following elements: BY: credit must be given to the creator. NC: Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted.
Project funders This study was funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in Ireland (Grant number 2021R600)
Related resources
  1. Menant, O., Mullan, S., Butler, F., Boyle, L. & O’Driscoll, K. (2023). Characterising outdoor pig systems in Ireland. Presented at the EAAP 74th Annual Meeting, Lyon, 30 Aug 2023 (Session 62).
  2. Teagasc. (2024). OneWelPig Newsletter, December 2024. Teagasc, Ireland. Available at: https://teagasc.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/OneWelPig-December-2024-Newsletter.pdf
  3. Menant, O., Boyle, L., Mullan, S., Butler, F. and O’Driscoll, K. (2025) ‘Pigs and pasture: Drivers and characteristics of outdoor systems on the island of Ireland’, PLOS ONE
Time of data collection Dec 2022 - Feb 2023