Assessment of post-farrowing performance in sows having a high number of pigs born dead on commercial farms

Livestock Science

Volumn 125, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 244-248

  Hoshino, Yuko ^a   Koketsu, Yuzo ^a  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Culling risk; Mummies; Sows; Stillbirth piglets

Indexed keywords

SUIDAE;

EID: 68949192836     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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