Do nurse sows and foster litters have impaired animal welfare? Results from a cross-sectional study in sow herds
Increasing litter size has led to introduction of so-called nurse sows in several EU countries. A nurse sow is a sow receiving piglets after having weaned her own piglets and thereby experiencing an extended lactation. In order to analyse whether nurse sows have more welfare problems than non-nurse...
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Elsevier
2016-01-01
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| Schriftenreihe: | Animal |
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| Online-Zugang: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731115002104 |
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