The use of a heated floor area by sows and piglets in farrowing pens

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-11

  Pedersen, Lene Juul ^a   Malmkvist, Jens ^a   Jørgensen, Erik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Floor heating; Parturition; Preference; Sus scrofa; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

PARTURITION; PIG; POSTURE; SUBSTRATE PREFERENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33846596301     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.03.015     Document Type: Article

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