Increasing the piglets' use of the creep area-A battle against biology?

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 125, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 96-102

  Vasdal, Guro ^a   Glærum, Marit ^a   Melišová, Michala ^b   Bøe, Knut E ^a   Broom, Donald M ^c   Andersen, Inger Lise ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creep area; Farrowing pens; Pig welfare; Piglet mortality

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; CREEP; MORTALITY; PIG;

SUIDAE;

EID: 79951959526     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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