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Identifying challenges to manage body weight variation in pig farms implementing all-in-all-out management practices and their possible implications for animal health: a case study
BACKGROUND: Managing body weight (BW) variation is a challenge in farrow-to-finish farms implementing all-in/all-out (AIAO) production systems due to the lack of “off-site” facilities to segregate slow growing pigs (SGP). This case study investigated different approaches to managing BW variation in...
Autores principales: | Rodrigues da Costa, Maria, García Manzanilla, Edgar, Diana, Alessia, van Staaveren, Nienke, Torres-Pitarch, Alberto, Boyle, Laura Ann, Calderón Díaz, Julia Adriana |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7798213/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33431068 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40813-021-00190-6 |
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