The Effect of Exercise on Lactating Sow Performance

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of light, daily exercise on body condition score (BCS), soundness (SS), injury (IS), lesions (LS) weaning wt (WW), and back fat (BF) of lactating sows housed in farrowing crates. A total of 24 sows were used in four trials. Body weight (BW),...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Higgins, Erinn E.
Other Authors: Animal and Poultry Sciences
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34537
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08142011-222324/