Inactive |
Motionless and sleeping |
Chewing |
Chewing (not on another pig) with its head raised and away from the feeder |
Locomotion |
Any movement including walking, running, scampering, and rolling |
Pen exploration |
Sniffing, touching, sucking or chewing any object that is part of the pen |
Drinking |
Drinking water or manipulating the drinker with or without ingestion of water |
Feeding |
Head positioned in the feeder or chewing food displaced from the feeder |
Excretion |
Defecating or urinating |
Tail biting |
Having the tail of another pig in its mouth and biting or pulling hard enough to cause a reaction in the other pig |
Belly nosing |
Repeated thrusting of snout into the belly of another pig |
Fighting |
Head-thrusting, ramming, biting, or pushing another pig |
Other social |
All other social interactions including mounting, head rubbing, and nosing parts of the body other than the belly |
Other |
All other behaviors not listed above |