Social facilitation and synchronization of eating between familiar and unfamiliar newly weaned piglets

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica A: Animal Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 54-60

  Keeling, Linda J ^a,b   Hurnik, J Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Feeding; Management; Pigs; Weaning

Indexed keywords

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0038873549     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: 16511972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064709609410924     Document Type: Article

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