Effect of a warm and flexible piglet nest heating system - The warm water bed - On piglet behaviour, live weight management and skin lesions

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-18

  Ziron, Martin ^a   Hoy, St ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Daily gain; Piglet behaviour; Skin lesions; Warm water bed

Indexed keywords

PIG;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037413554     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(02)00206-X     Document Type: Article

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