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Effect of microclimate on air quality in intensive pig production

The ever increasing intensive pig production is known to have adverse health effects on both animals and humans working in such a setting. Animal diseases that occur in intensive pig breeding are multicausal and consequential to poor animal adaptation to their artificially created environment. Air quality as one of the most important components of animal environment has only recently been considered as a complex problem that can be divided into dust, microorganisms and gases. None of these components will cause a disease by itself but will lead to a decreased daily gain and consequential reduction in the pig breeding productivity. In addition, the animal welfare is in jeopardy. Therefore, keeping the microclimate within optimal limits could be one of the crucial elements in reducing the microorganism count in pig housing, thus also in preventing their detrimental effects on both animal and human health.

microclimate; air quality; environment; dust; microorganisms; intensive

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