Danger to Pigs Due to Crushing Can Be Reduced by the Use of a Simulated Udder

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2060-2064

  Lay Jr , D C ^a   Haussmann, M F ^a   Buchanan, H S ^a   Daniels, M J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crushing; Mortality; Piglets

Indexed keywords

SUS SCROFA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAT; LITTER SIZE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEWBORN; PUERPERIUM; SWINE; UDDER; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; HEAT; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LITTER SIZE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; SWINE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0033173519     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1999.7782060x     Document Type: Article

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