Responses to novel situations of female and castrated male pigs with divergent social breeding values and different backtest classifications in barren and straw-enriched housing

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 151, Issue , 2014, Pages 24-35

  Reimert, Inonge ^a   Rodenburg, T Bas ^a   Ursinus, Winanda W ^a   Kemp, Bas ^a   Bolhuis, J Elizabeth ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Backtest; Enrichment; Gender differences; Novelty; Pigs; Social breeding values

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; GROWTH RESPONSE; MATE CHOICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIG; SALIVA; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

SUIDAE;

EID: 84893662302     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2013.11.015     Document Type: Article

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