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Effect of rearing cross-fostered piglets in litters of either uniform or mixed birth weights on preweaning growth and mortality

Cross-fostering is a practice commonly used in the swine industry to equalize litter sizes, however, there is limited understanding of the optimum cross-fostering methods that will maximize piglet preweaning growth and survival. This study evaluated the effects of within-litter variation in birth we...

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Autores principales: Vande Pol, Katherine D, Bautista, Raphael O, Harper, Heath, Shull, Caleb M, Brown, Catherine B, Ellis, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34841203
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tas/txab030