Weaning of pigs in group housing and in conventional housing systems for lactating sows

Swedish Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-31

  Rantzer, Dan ^a,c   Svendsen, Jørgen ^a,c   Weström, Björn ^b  

^a Department of Agricultural Biosystems and Technology ^*  (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

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