The effect of feeder space on pig behaviour and performance in organic production with a pig sort feeding system
Behaviour at feeding and performance of pigs can be influenced by the design of the feeding area. Resources allocated in restricted space cause a disruption in communicative behaviour and even pigs in established hierarchies compete for feed. Therefore, a substantial amount of agonistic behaviour ha...
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SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health (until 231231)
2020
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