Oral/nasal/facial and other behaviors of sows kept individually outdoors on pasture, soil or indoors in gestation crates

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 25-43

  Dailey, Jeffery W ^a,b   McGlone, John J ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous behavior; Housing; Pig; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343145660     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(96)01099-4     Document Type: Article

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