Effects of Group Housing after Weaning on Sow Welfare and Sexual Behaviour
An Australian-Danish study has found that sows housed in groups at weaning and re-grouped after insemination experienced higher stress than sows housed in individual stalls at weaning and mixed in groups after insemination, leading to less successful mating within five days of weaning for the group-housed sows.
28 January 2015
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