Higher preweaning mortality in free farrowing pens compared with farrowing crates in three commercial pig farms

Animal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 113-120

  Hales, J ^a   Moustsen, V A ^b   Nielsen, M B F ^b   Hansen, C F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Danish Agriculture and Food Council   (Denmark)

Author keywords

animal welfare; farrowing accommodation; loose sows; piglet mortality

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUCKLING ANIMAL; SWINE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LINEAR MODELS; MORTALITY; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84901628883     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731113001869     Document Type: Article

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