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Pre-weaning piglet mortality continues to be a major welfare and economic concern. In outdoor farrowing systems, there is a particular need to broaden breeding goals by incorporating selection for piglet survival to improve both productivity and welfare. This study aimed to identify behavioural and physiological survival indicators that are influential in outdoor systems and that could provide additional information for use when selecting for piglet survival. Data were collected from 511 piglets from Large White x Landrace x Duroc sows and Generalised Linear Mixed Models determined which indicators were most important for piglet survival in an outdoor system. With respect to prenatal mortality (surviving vs. stillborn piglets) high ponderal index (P
Author(s): Baxter EM, Jarvis S, Sherwood L, Robson SK, Ormandy E, Farish M, Smurthwaite KM, Roehe R, Lawrence AB, Edwards SA
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Livestock Science
Year: 2009
Volume: 124
Issue: 1-3
Pages: 266-276
ISSN (print): 1871-1413
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2009.02.008
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2009.02.008
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