Incidence of lameness and abrasions in piglets in identical farrowing pens with four different types of floor

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Zoric, Mate ^a,b   Nilsson, Ebba ^a   Lundeheim, Nils ^b   Wallgren, Per ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HYICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE SUBSP. EQUISIMILIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BUILDING; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; HOOF AND CLAW; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; FOOT DISEASES; HOOF AND CLAW; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INCIDENCE; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 67649410396     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-51-23     Document Type: Article

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