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Effect of Individual, Group or ESF Housing in Pregnancy and Individual or Group Housing in Lactation on the Performance of Sows and Their Piglets

Lookup NU author(s): Emerita Professor Sandra Edwards

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Abstract

To evaluate different housing systems, 80 gilts were randomly allocated at puberty to four treatments: i) sow stall in gestation followed by farrowing crate (SC), ii) group housing with individual feeding in gestation followed by farrowing crate (GC), iii) ESF (Electronic Sow Feeding) system in gestation followed by farrowing crate (EC), and iv) ESF system followed by group farrowing pen (EG). The results showed that stalled sows had a longer interval between puberty and second estrus (p

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Author(s): Weng RC, Edwards SA, Hsia LC

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences

Year: 2009

Volume: 22

Issue: 9

Pages: 1328-1333

ISSN (print): 1011-2367

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Publisher: Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies

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