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Title Pig welfare indicators collected from on outdoor pig farms in Ireland
License CC BY-NC-SA
Teagasc Department Pig Development
Teagasc Programme Animal and Grassland
Description The dataset contains details of a number of measurements collected from individual pigs who were more than 3 months old, on 20 outdoor pig farms in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The health and welfare measurements were collected using visual scoring scales, and cortisol concentrations in faeces and hair were calculated using laboratory techniques.
Language English
Principal Investigator (PI) Laura Boyle
Principal Investigator (PI) email laura.boyle@teagasc.ie
Principal Investigator (PI) ORCID 0000-0001-7080-1776
Data creator(s)
  1. Nipuna Senanayake
  2. Ophélie Menant
  3. Keelin O’Driscoll
  4. Laura Boyle
  5. Fidelma Butler
  6. Élodie Peyrard
  7. Laura Frigerio
  8. Camille Ducher
  9. Lilou Soler
Geographic coverage Farms were located across the island of Ireland
Project funders This study was funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in Ireland (Grant number 2021R600).
Time of data collection February to December 2023
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