Playing and fighting by piglets around weaning on farms, employing individual or group housing of lactating sows

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 83-89

  Šilerová, Jitka ^a   Špinka, Marek ^a   Šárová, Radka ^a   Algers, Bo ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agonistic behaviour; Housing; On farm experiment; Pig; Play; Weaning; Welfare

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; COEXISTENCE; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; FARM SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUP BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; HOUSING; ISOLATED POPULATION; LACTATION; LITTER; PIG; PLAY; WEANING;

SWEDEN;

SUIDAE;

EID: 77950627263     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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