Responses of piglets to creep heat type and location in farrowing crate

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 515-519

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Xin, Hongwei ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creep heating; Heat lamp; Heat mat; Swine farrowing

Indexed keywords

CREEP; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HEATING; TEMPERATURE;

CREEP HEATING; SWINE FARROWING;

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING;

AGRICULTURE; CREEP; HEATING;

EID: 0035410497     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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1. Continuous versus periodic observations in behavior studies with swine raised in confinement
2. Surface temperature distribution of commercial heat mats for swine creep heating
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5. Static and dynamic temperature distribution of heat mats for swine farrowing creep heating
6. Modeling of heat mats for creep heating in swine farrowing crates
7. Responses of piglets to variable vs. constant output heat lamp with clear vs. red color
8. Sampling rate for measurement of piglet thermoregulatory behavior