The accumulation of skin lesions and their use as a predictor of individual aggressiveness in pigs

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 96, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 245-259

  Turner, Simon P ^a   Farnworth, Mark J ^a,f   White, Ian M S ^b   Brotherstone, Sue ^a   Mendl, Mike ^c   Knap, Pieter ^d   Penny, Paul ^e   Lawrence, Alistair B ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d PIC Germany GmbH   (Germany)

^e JSR Farming Group   (United Kingdom)

^f UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bullying; Fighting; Lesion score; Mixing related aggression; Pig

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; FIGHTING; PIG;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 31544453357     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2005.06.009     Document Type: Article

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