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A Review of Success Factors for Piglet Fostering in Lactation

open access: yesAnimals, 2018
Piglet movement from one sow to another, or fostering, is required in modern pig farming but there is little available literature on the most effective strategy.
Kate J plush
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Toxoplasmosis in Piglets

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006
Abstract:  Seventeen‐day‐old piglets in a small holding farm in southern Thailand manifested signs of convulsion, fever, and death. The morbidity and mortality rate were approximately 26.09% (6/23) and 4.35% (1/23), respectively. Impression smear from lungs demonstrated tachyzoite stage of Toxoplasma gondii.
Anyarat, Thiptara   +4 more
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The Effect of Sows’ and Piglets’ Behaviour on Piglet Crushing Patterns in Two Different Farrowing Pen Systems

open access: yesAnimals, 2019
Pens with farrowing crate (FC) and two differently designed free-farrowing pens (LH-pens: 7.3 m², plastic flooring; GH-pens: 5 m², cast-iron and concrete flooring) were compared regarding piglet losses and postpartum sow behaviour (all ...
Thies Nicolaisen   +2 more
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Behavioural responses of piglets to castration: the effect of piglet age

Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2001
It has long been assumed that neonatal animals are less sensitive than older animals to pain, and this reasoning has been used to recommend that routine surgical procedures be performed at an early age. In this study we tested if vocal and other behavioural responses to castration increase with piglet age.
A A., Taylor   +3 more
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Toxoplasmosis in piglets

New Zealand Veterinary Journal, 1969
Abstract Extract Ovine toxoplasmosis is of importance in New Zealand where it is recognized as the most common cause of intrauterine infection leading to abortion and stillbirths (Hartley and Boyes, 1964). Although clinical disease is rare in humans, serological evidence shows a high incidence of subclinical infection with 50% of New Zealand adults ...
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Conjoined twin piglets

Veterinary Record, 2005
REPORTS of conjoined or identical twins have been found exclusively in cattle (Arthur 1956). To the authors’ knowledge, identical twins have not yet been recorded in sheep, pigs, dogs or cats. This short communication describes a rare case of conjoined twins in newborn piglets in which the component parts were diplopagus (equal and symmetrical ...
M B, Mostafa, K L M K, Koma, J, Acon
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When is a piglet not a piglet?

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1991
When it is a full-grown pig. Specifically we have to do with the word δελφάκιον, defined by LSJ as a ‘sucking pig’. Now, it is true that the word itself is a diminutive of δέλφαξ, and that a δέλφαξ is a fullgrown pig; but not every diminutive indicates something small or immature.
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Playful behaviour of piglets

Behavioural Processes, 1988
Domestic piglets living in multi-litter groups with their dams and other pigs in a large, socially and ecologically rich outdoor enclosure were observed, to obtain a quantitative description of the frequencies and sequences of behaviour patterns performed during play.
R C, Newberry, D G, Wood-Gush, J W, Hall
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CRYPTOSPORIDIAL INFECTION OF PIGLETS

Australian Veterinary Journal, 1982
SUMMARY Cryptosporidia were detected in the brush border of villous epithelium in the small intestine of 4 piglets 2 to 9 weeks old. Although the 4 piglets had been suffering from diarrhoea no specific role could be attributed to the cryptosporidia. Other than damage to the brush border there were no significant histological abnormalities in the small ...
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