Does floor heating around parturition affect the vitality of piglets born to loose housed sows?

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 88-105

  Malmkvist, Jens ^a   Pedersen, Lene Juul ^a   Damgaard, Birthe Marie ^a   Thodberg, Karen ^a   Jørgensen, Erik ^a   Labouriau, Rodrigo ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Mortality; Piglet viability; Sus scrofa; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

HEATING; HYPOXIA; PARTURITION; PIG; SURVIVAL; THERMOREGULATION;

PARVOVIRUS;

EID: 33745699935     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2005.10.007     Document Type: Article

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