“Not all stress is bad”

Stress is not necessarily a bad thing for pigs. After all, if a pig feels threatened, hungry or cold, it can take action. Now what exactly is stress, why is it so interesting, and when is stress bad for pigs? Prof Janeen Salak-Johnson, stress expert at Illinois University, explains. Pigs and behaviour – two subjects Prof Janeen Salak-Johnson was only moderately interested in when she embarked on her undergraduate at Texas Tech University. Nevertheless, nowadays, these two words are among the