During the PPILOW Final Conference, held in Brussels🇧🇪 from 11th to 12th June, the consortium took the chance to thank the coordinator of the project, Anne Collin, with a special present🎁

🤔🐷How is #pig #welfare assessed in studies on farrowing housing systems? A systematic review 🔎Read it here👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.appl…

Reducing phosphate in animal feed for a sustainable living environment🌿 How can you grow healthy livestock using less phosphate and limit the long-term impact of phosphorus on the environment?🤔 👉 koudijs.com/eu/explore-and…

🎥PPILOW Webseries 6th Video!🐷 This new video of the PPILOW project focuses on the use of phytotherapy against #microorganisms and #parasites 🦠in traditional #pig breeds. Enjoy the video👇 youtube.com/watch?v=DztZ-E…

A non-invasive tool to collect small intestine content in post weaning pigs: validation study🐷 The aim of this study is to validate a new capsule prototype (CapSa) for non-invasive sampling of the intestinal microbiota in pigs. 🔎Read it here👇 nature.com/articles/s4159…

🎥PPILOW Webseries 7th Video!🐔 This new video of the PPILOW project focuses on dual purpose chicken breeds able to produce eggs and meat and the interest to rear both sexes.🐣 Enjoy the video👇 youtube.com/watch?v=tjDKbF…

🎥PPILOW Webseries 8th Video!🐔 This new video of the PPILOW project focuses on dual purpose chicken breeds able to produce eggs and meat and the interest to rear both sexes. 🐣 Enjoy the video👇 youtube.com/watch?v=SuOZhu…

🐔Mortality, growth, and egg production do not differ between nontransgenic and transgenic female chickens with ubiquitous expression of the 3D8 single chain variable fragment gene🧬 #chicken #animalscience 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.…

🐷Lactating sows: heat stress only in summer?🤔 The optimal temperature for a sow is around 18 to 20°C. Therefore, it is important to take appropriate measures throughout the year without overdoing it. 👉 koudijs.com/eu/explore-and… #animalscience #pigs #sows

📄Scientific publications peer-reviewed: "New approaches to selecting a scan-sampling method for chicken behavioral observations and their practical implications"🐔 🔎Read it here👇 nature.com/articles/s4159…

🎥PPILOW Webseries 9th Video!🐷 This new video of the PPILOW project focuses on Vanggaard farrowing ‘s hut and #piglet #welfare. Enjoy the video👇 youtube.com/watch?v=DJeaw2…

📄Scientific publications peer-reviewed: "Satureja hortensis L. and Calendula officinalis L., Two Romanian Plants, with In Vivo Antiparasitic Potential against Digestive Parasites of Swine"🐷 🔎Read it here👇 mdpi.com/2076-2607/11/1…

📣SPACE Conference 2024 Session dedicated to "How to improve poultry and pigs health and welfare in outdoor organic farms" of SPACE Conference will be held on 18th September at 14.00-15.30 in Rennes, France🇫🇷 ℹ️Detailed info👇 space.fr/en/home

📝 The 10th PPILOW newsletter is now available! Enjoy your reading 👉 ppilow.eu/wp-content/upl… ✍️For receiving the future issues please sign up here ppilow.eu/dissemination/…

🚀PPILOW project participates to the 75th EAAP Annual Meeting today! Jarkko Niemi hold his presentation at Session 9, Theatre 2 "Slow and localor fast and global - examining business opportunities to advance good #welfare practices in organic and outdoor farming"🐔🐷

@HelenPluschke held her presentation "How dual purpose? The balance act between fattening and laying performance: an index to describe dual purpose #poultry" during session 2!🐔

Anne Collin hold her presentation "Multiperformance of slow-growing and dual-purpose strains in organic chicken production: learning from the PPILOW project" as invited speaker🐔

Simona Mattioli held her presentation: "An index for adaptability evaluation of slow-growing chicken genotypes reared in free-range system"🐥🐔

🐣🐔"Application of Quality of Life approach to evaluate the behavior of four slow-growing chicken genotypes reared in free-range system" was held by Alice Cartoni Mancinelli!🐓

🇪🇺PPILOW National Practitioners Groups (NPGs) meetings 2024: innovation and knowledge exchange accomplished! 🧐Read the article here👇 ppilow.eu/ppilow-nationa…