Piglets milk intake during nursing in sows treated with oxytocin
Milk ejection occurs in response to release of the hormone oxytocin from the pitui-tary, and this hormone is also used as treatment of milk stasis in sows in the Swe-dish piglet production. Today, there are few reports on the effect of oxytocin injec-tion on sow milk let down, piglet and sow nursing...
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SLU/Dept. of Animal Breeding and Genetics (until 231231)
2017
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