Behaviour of sows and piglets reared in intensive outdoor or indoor systems

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 27-39

  Hötzel, Maria José ^a   Pinheiro Machado F, Luiz Carlos ^a   Wolf, Fernando Machado ^a   Dalla Costa, Osmar Antonio ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Housing; Maternal investment; Outdoor; Pig; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PIG; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 17144460530     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2003.11.014     Document Type: Article

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