Lying behaviour and adrenocortical response as indicators of the thermal tolerance of pigs of different weights

Animal Welfare

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 329-335

  Hilmann, Edna ^a,b   Mayer, C ^b,c   Schrader, L ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL VETERINARY OFFICE   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Animal welfare; Cortisol; Lying behaviour; Pig; Temperature; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX FUNCTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT TOLERANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HORMONE RESPONSE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; REST; SALIVA LEVEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWINE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 4043135758     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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