The effect of double nursing, an alternative nursing strategy for the hyper-prolific sow herd, on herd performance

BACKGROUND: Hyper-prolific sows produce more piglets than they can suckle, as the number of milk producing teats of the sow is lower (twelve to sixteen) than the number of live born piglets per litter. Farmers and farm workers are struggling to feed this surplus of piglets. To minimize suckling pigl...

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Autores principales: Houben, Manon A. M., Tobias, Tijs J., Holstege, Manon M. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28405458
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40813-016-0050-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28405458
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40813-016-0050-1

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