Nursing synchronization and milk ejection failure as maternal strategies to reduce allosuckling in pair-housed sows (Sus scrofa domestica)

Ethology

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 652-668

  Illmann, Gudrun ^a   Pokorná, Zuzana ^a   Špinka, Marek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUCKLING; SYNCHRONY;

SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 22044437228     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2005.01083.x     Document Type: Article

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