This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.
This week’s Science Page is a summary of research done by Md Karim Uddin, Shah Hasan, Olli Peltoniemi, and Claudio Oliviero of the University of Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland. The authors looked at the effect of several factors, including birth order, on piglet growth performances and preweaning survival rates.
Continue reading “Summary: The effect of piglet vitality, birth order, and blood lactate on the piglet growth performances and preweaning survival”