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Pork Checkoff Research

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Animal Well-being
Determining the Minimal Floor Space Allowance for Gestating Sows Kept in Pens with Electronic Sow Feeders
Animal Well-being
Protecting low ranking sows in group-housing systems
Background: In group-housing systems, low-ranking sows are usually defeated and injured by high ranking sows. This results in low-ranking sows becoming fearful of further conflicts when...
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