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Will Sows Fight With Former Neighbors When Mixed?

2014-03-13 16:26:00| National Hog Farmer

Jeremy Marchant-Forde, D.C. Lay, Jr. and R.M. Marchant-Forde, all of the USDA ARS Livestock Behavior Research Unit, Purdue University; J.P. Garner, Department of Animal Science, Purdue University; and A.K. Johnson, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University A recent pork checkoff-funded research study investigated whether or not newly mixed sows would fight if they had previously been housed in close proximity in breeding barn stalls. read more

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