Dam Attributes And Postnatal Piglet Survival

Title
Dam Attributes And Postnatal Piglet Survival
Publication Date
2010
Author(s)
Tabuaciri, Poasa
Bunter, Kim L
Graser, Hans
Editor
Editor(s): Gesellschaft für Tierzuchtwissenschaften e. V.
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
German Society for Animal Science
Place of publication
Germany
UNE publication id
une:7366
Abstract
Pre-weaning mortality is a production and welfare problem for modern production systems. Approximately 10 to 35% (Tyler et al. 1990) of newborn piglets die within the first three weeks of life, with more than 50% of deaths in the first three to five days post-farrowing. The main causes of preweaning deaths are starvation and crushing (Alonso-Spilsbury et al. 2007) and both sow and piglet attributes are implicated. This paper explores novel traits recorded on the sow pre- and post-farrowing to establish which dam level factors are associated with mortality of a sow's biological piglets.
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Citation
Proceedings of the 9th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production
ISBN
9783000316081

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