The influence of selected litter and herd factors on treatments for lameness in suckling piglets from 35 Danish herds

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 107-118

  Christensen, J ^a,b,c  

^a Federation of Danish Pig Producers   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clustering; Confounding; Lameness; Pigs; Suckling

Indexed keywords

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0040749532     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-5877(95)00523-4     Document Type: Article

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