Relation between reproduction performance and indicators of feed intake, fear and social stress in commercial herds with group-housed non-lactating sows

Autor:	A.G. Kongsted
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Social stress Litter (animal) Pregnancy Veterinary medicine General Veterinary Back fat animal diseases media_common.quotation_subject Biology medicine.disease Pregnancy rate Animal science medicine Herd Animal Science and Zoology Reproduction Eating behaviour media_common
Zdroj:	Livestock Science. 101:46-56
ISSN:	1871-1413
DOI:	10.1016/j.livprodsci.2005.09.011
Popis:	Group-housing of non-lactating sows is becoming increasingly widespread in commercial sow herds in European countries as a result of changed legislation. Group-housing may lead to individual variation in feed intake, stress and fear, which may impair the reproduction performance. However, whether the individual variation in feed intake and the level of stress and fear under commercial conditions is severe enough to impair the reproduction performance is not known. In a detailed farm study including 14 herds with different layouts the relations between various indicators of feed intake, stress and fear and reproduction performance were studied based on 553 focal sows. Twelve percent of all mated sows were re-mated and average litter size was 14.8 born piglets per litter. Chance of pregnancy (P
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