Cross-suckling when sows are group housed during lactation : associations with sow productivity and behaviour
Cross-suckling, i.e. when an offspring nurses a female other than their own mother, occurs in pig production systems where sows are group housed during lactation. As production systems where several sows and their litters are housed together during lactation are getting more common, the need of know...
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SLU/Dept. of Animal Breeding and Genetics (until 231231)
2012
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