Length of productive life of crossbred sows is affected by farm management, leg conformation, sow's own prolificacy, sow's origin parity and genetics

Animal

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 745-750

  Serenius, T ^a,b   Stalder, K J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Parity; Pigs; Productive life; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; HERD; NONHUMAN; PARITY; PIG FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOW (SWINE); SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; PIERIS BRASSICAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 34249085935     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S175173110769185X     Document Type: Article

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