Monogastric farm animals, in specific poultry and pigs, have an additional set of species-specific pressure points respective of their animal type, husbandry practices and feed requirements. In certain cases, the challenges may be the same, but solutions are sometimes tailor-made to a specific animal species, which is the case with environmental challenges such as ammonia and nitrogen emissions related to manure excretion, which have impacts on air quality, biodiversity and water bodies. There are also specific ways to improve resource efficiency in monogastric feeding systems compared to other animal species.

In terms of animal health, pig housing systems are vulnerable to the risk of diarrhea and poultry can suffer from keel bone fracture in case of inadequate nutrition provision and footpad dermatitis due to wet litter. Changes in animal welfare requirements pig housing systems need to manage increased animal welfare requirements, such as bans on tail docking and chirurgical castration. Poultry housing systems may have to find alternative solutions to beck trimming to deal with feather pecking.