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Once small always small? To what extent morphometric characteristics and post-weaning starter regime affect pig lifetime growth performance

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of piglet morphometric characteristics and starter regime on postnatal growth. Some piglets born light are able to grow faster than others, and identifying which piglets are more at risk to remain light and at which stages of growth is es...

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Autores principales: Huting, A. M. S., Sakkas, P., Wellock, I., Almond, K., Kyriazakis, I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6055348/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30062042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40813-018-0098-1

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