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Struggling to survive: early life challenges in relation to the backtest in pigs1

Struggling to survive: early life challenges in relation to the backtest in pigs1

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Struggling to survive: early life challenges in relation to the backtest in pigs1

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Struggling to survive: early life challenges in relation to the backtest in pigs1

Publisher

Champaign: Oxford University Press

Journal title

Journal of animal science, 2014-07, Vol.92 (7), p.3088-3095

Language

English

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Champaign: Oxford University Press

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Intensively reared piglets may face many early life challenges and these may affect behavior. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between piglets' early life circumstances and their behavioral response in a backtest. Here, 992 piglets of 14 d of age were subjected to a backtest, in which they were restrained for 1 min in a s...

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Struggling to survive: early life challenges in relation to the backtest in pigs1

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1548805521

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1548805521

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ISSN

0021-8812

E-ISSN

1525-3163

DOI

10.2527/jas.2013-7537

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