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A 10-year trend in piglet pre-weaning mortality in breeding herds associated with sow herd size and number of piglets born alive

BACKGROUND: Piglet pre-weaning mortality (PWM) is one of the biggest problems regarding sow performance and piglet welfare. Recently, PWM has increased in some countries, but it is not known if there are similar increases in other countries, nor whether increased PWM is related to either increased n...

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Autores principales: Koketsu, Yuzo, Iida, Ryosuke, Piñeiro, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7784010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33397499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40813-020-00182-y