Validation of an automatic system to detect position changes in puerperal sows

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 96-102

  Mainau, Eva ^a   Dalmau, Antoni ^b   Ruiz de la Torre, José Luis ^a   Manteca, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Activity; Behaviour; Farrowing; Neonatal mortality; Pigs

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CORRELATION; MAMMAL; MORTALITY; NEONATE; PIG; SENSOR;

ANIMALIA; PIERIS BRASSICAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 71749088538     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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