Early piglet mortality in loose-housed sows related to sow and piglet behaviour and to the progress of parturition

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 96, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 215-232

  Pedersen, Lene Juul ^a   Jørgensen, Erik ^a   Heiskanen, Teresia ^b   Damm, Birgitte I ^b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Farrowing behaviour; Graphical models; Sus Scrofa

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; MORTALITY; PIG;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 31544463832     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2005.06.016     Document Type: Article

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