Animal interaction and response to electronic sow feeding (ESF) in 3 different herds and effects of function settings to increase capacity

Livestock Science

Volumn 137, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 268-272

  Olsson, A Ch ^a   Andersson, M ^a   Botermans, J ^a   Rantzer, D ^a   Svendsen, J ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attack incidents; Electronic sow feeding; Injury score; Sow interaction; Technical function; Vulva lesions

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79953043802     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2010.10.014     Document Type: Article

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