Increasing Creep Feed Intake by Stimulating Exploratory Behaviour Using Enrichment

Providing pigs with a large feeder so they could eat together appeared to attract the pigs more than rope as an enrichment toy in this experiment at the Prairie Swine Centre. Authors Yolande Seddon and Jennifer Brown noted in the Centre's annual report 2013-14 that neither feeder size nor enrichment affected growth rate except in the short term, however.
calendar icon 24 April 2015
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