Effects of floor-feeding and the presence of a foraging substrate on the behaviour and stress physiological response of individually housed gilts

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 297-310

  De Leeuw, J A ^a,b   Ekkel, E D ^b   Jongbloed, A W ^a   Verstegen, M W A ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Floor feeding; Foraging behaviour; Satiety; Sows; Stress physiology; Substrate

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; FEEDING; HOUSING; PIG;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0037363917     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(02)00234-4     Document Type: Article

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