Pig producers must balance the requirements to provideappropriate welfare improvements with practical considerations:applicability in commercial practice, cost implications, effect onperformance and product quality, and so forth. The aim of thepresent study was therefore to determine if a reduction of stockingdensity and the introduction of suspended pieces of hard wood asenvironmental enrichment may affect behavior and fecal corticosteroid concentrations in growing-finishing pigs under commercialfarm conditions.