The effects of pregnancy and parity number on behavioural and physiological responses related to the welfare status of individual and group-housed pigs (1987)
Barnett, J. L., Hemsworth, P. H., Winfield, C. G. et al.
Abstract
Pigs housed in tether stalls showed immunosuppression suggesting that their welfare was impaired. It was concluded that unresolved aggression in tether-housed pigs may result in a chronic stress response.
Published
1987
Citation
Barnett, J. L., Hemsworth, P. H., Winfield, C. G. et al. 1987. The effects of pregnancy and parity number on behavioural and physiological responses related to the welfare status of individual and group-housed pigs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 17, 229-243.
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