October 8, 2015
Sow aggression is a common problem associated with group-housing systems especially during feeding and mixing of sows. Grouped-housed sows establish a social hierarchy upon mixing which often reduces...January 10, 2012
These data provide scientific support that the type of individual stall a sows is housed in for the 1st 30 days prior to being moved to...June 24, 2011
Sow housing has become a very controversial welfare issue for pork producers. We cannot justify implementing alternative housing systems without concrete scientific data from these system that...February 25, 2011
A major public issue on a global scale is farm animal welfare; with the most critical issue facing the swine industry being how the pregnant sow should be kept in commercial pork production. Despite...October 27, 2009
Sow housing has become a controversial welfare issue for pork producers. We cannot begin to implement costly alternative housing systems without scientific data that support these changes that could...February 2, 2009
A series of studies were designed to determine any impact of various autosort layouts on pig productivity and welfare. To accomplish this, Exp 1, we compared food-court, fast-lane, and water-pen...December 10, 2004
These data provide further support that sow performance and productivity between those kept in crates and groups is similar. Overall, differences found between sows kept in crates and those in...November 3, 2004
Animals adapt more readily to photoperiod cues than other environmental cues since photoperiod is more predictable and consistent over time. Previous work has shown limited (if any) affects of...
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