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Evaluation of the usefulness of the provision of shredded paper as bedding in a slatted floored farrowing pen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

K Stamatopoulos ,
P R English ,
O MacPherson ,
J A Roden ,
F M Davidson  and
J Williams
K Stamatopoulos
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Aberdeen, 581 King Street, Aberdeen AB9 1UD
P R English
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Aberdeen, 581 King Street, Aberdeen AB9 1UD
O MacPherson
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Aberdeen, 581 King Street, Aberdeen AB9 1UD
J A Roden
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Aberdeen, 581 King Street, Aberdeen AB9 1UD
F M Davidson
Affiliation:
A Simmers Ltd, Bogfechel, Whiterashes, Aberdeenshire
J Williams
Affiliation:
A Simmers Ltd, Bogfechel, Whiterashes, Aberdeenshire
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Most farrowing pens have slatted floors mainly to achieve labour economy and high standards of hygiene. A major deficiency of such flooring is the difficulty of using bedding to reduce hypothermia of newborn piglets and to protect their delicate tissues from the relative abrasiveness of the floor. Shredded waste paper bedding may have useful applications in such situations because of its texture and cohesiveness, qualities which slow up the rate at which it is voided through the slats relative to other bedding materials. Such paper bedding was evaluated in a controlled experiment.

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Joint WPSA/BSAP Sessions
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1993: Winter meeting , March 1993 , pp. 219
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1993

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