Sustainability Report 2023 FINAL - Flipbook - Page 7
Pigs
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Animal Care
We live out our core value by caring for our animals every day. This includes team trainings, research
and innovations to enhance animal welfare, preparing for foreign animal diseases, practicing responsible
antibiotic use, and auditing to ensure animal welfare needs are being met.
Enhancing Animal Welfare
Training
Investigate
We provide monthly animal welfare training to
all pig caregivers and maintain PQA and TQA
certi昀椀cations.
We provide animal welfare hotline information for
employees to report animal welfare concerns and
follow up appropriately on submissions.
Research
Communicate
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Completed multiple pilot projects aimed to
reduce 昀椀ghting in pen gestation.
Began tracking treatment outcomes at the sow
farm level.
Installed rubber 昀氀ooring to determine if we can
increase success at treating lame sows.
Trialed a new anti-in昀氀ammatory medication for
lameness and for in昀氀ammation associated with
farrowing.
Piloted a new syringe that tracks bent/broken
needles.
To learn more about our animal welfare program
and projects, visit the animal welfare page on
pipestone.com --> pipestone.com/pig-welfare/.
Verify
We perform internal audits at all sow farms 6-12
times a year, and perform external audits once
every three years.
Audits
Third Party Audits
98.9
GOALS
Have each pig caregiver at PIPESTONE
complete 1 welfare course and pass 1
welfare quiz each month.
Continue validation of welfare performance
through:
• Internal audits with annual scores >90%
• External audits with annual scores >93%
• Expert welfare panelist visits 2 times
annually
9.6
/10
Average Audit
Score
Average Audit
Score
20
576
Audits
Our 2024
/100
Internal Audits
Audits
