A pilot survey of farm animal welfare in Serbia, a country preparing for EU accession.

would they be less satisfied if the animals demonstrated more indicators of poor welfare on their farms? For fattening pigs there was no significant difference in the numbers of pigs between satisfied and dissatisfied farmers, but when farmers were satisfied with conditions, unexpectedly, the prevalences of body lesions and lameness showed a trend to be higher ( P = 0.07 and 0.10 respectively).

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For sows, there was a weak trend for a higher median prevalence of two indicators if the farmer had heard of welfare: this was for bursitis (70 vs. 25%, P = 0.17) and body lesions (23.3% vs. 0, P = 0.11).

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