On-farm monitoring of pig welfare by assessment of housing, management, health records and plasma haptoglobin

Animal Welfare

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 643-647

  Geers, Rony ^a   Petersen, B ^b   Huysmans, K ^a   Knura Deszczka, S ^b   De Becker, M ^a   Gymnich, S ^b   Henot, D ^a   Hiss, S ^b   Sauerwein, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Haptoglobin; Health; Housing; Management; Pig

Indexed keywords

HAPTOGLOBIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; FARMING SYSTEM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LAWSONIA; LUNG INJURY; MONITORING; MYCOPLASMA HYOPNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PIG FARMING; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SALMONELLA; SANITATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALIA; LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HYOPNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0242659326     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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