Nitovski Atanas, Radović Bisa, Dragana Grčak, Valentina Milanović, Milenković M., and Grčak M.

Faculty of Agriculture, Lešak, University of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo and Metohy, Serbia

 

Abstract: The behavior of animals is their adaptation to the functioning of the various external and internal factors of the stimulus, namely: accommodation, or living space; heat; sound; supply of food and water; fear and others. Sense of animals such as hearing, smell, sight and touch, cause different forms of animal behavior. 

  Modern ethology recognizes three directions:

  (1) The study of behavior by observing and describing.

  (2) Research and reactions in behavior using biochemical methods.

  (3) Genetics of behavior including the evolution of behavior.

  In our work, we tracked the behavior of pigs on a large pig farm with a capacity of 1,450 sows in parent breeding stock. On a farm, in addition to any sows and 40 boars used for artificial insemination. The farm is closed, which means that the breeding material and pigs for fattening provided from its own main herd. The aim is that observation of the observed changes of behavior of pigs present leadership of the farm and to propose measures for eliminating the causes of changes in the behavior of pigs.

Key words: ethology, monitoring, behavior, pigs, farm