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Neonatal piglet survival indicators in an outdoor system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

E. M. Baxter ,
S. Jarvis ,
L. Sherwood ,
M. Farish ,
S. K. Robson  and
S. A. Edwards
E. M. Baxter*
Affiliation:
Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
S. Jarvis
Affiliation:
Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
L. Sherwood
Affiliation:
Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
M. Farish
Affiliation:
Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
S. K. Robson
Affiliation:
Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
S. A. Edwards
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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The current estimate of live-born piglet pre-weaning mortality in UK outdoor systems is 11% (MLC, 2006), representing a major welfare and economic concern. The majority of deaths occur in the first few days of life when the piglets are at their most vulnerable. Selecting for high survival in piglets, may allow breeding of animals better able to survive and better suited to alternative and less restrictive systems than the farrowing crate. The aim was to develop and measure behavioural and physiological indicators of neonatal survival, and to determine treatment effects in populations of piglets selected for high survival and control lines farrowing in an outdoor system.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2007 , April 2007 , pp. 74
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2007

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Meat Livestock Commission, 2006. Pig yearbook 2006Google Scholar