Impact of single-sex and mixed-sex group housing of boars vaccinated against GnRF or physically castrated on body lesions, feeding behaviour and weight gain

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 130, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 42-52

  Schmidt, Tatjana ^a   Calabrese, Justin M ^b,c   Grodzycki, Mario ^d   Paulick, Marleen ^a   Pearce, Michael C ^d   Rau, Franziska ^a   von Borell, Eberhard ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Castration; Feeding behaviour; GnRF vaccination; Mixed sex housing; Welfare

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL WELFARE; BODY MASS; CASTRATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; FOOD INTAKE; LESION; PIG; REARING; VACCINATION; WEIGHT;

SUIDAE;

EID: 78951484032     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2010.11.019     Document Type: Article

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