Browsing Swine Day, 1983 by Subject "Weaning"

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Browsing Swine Day, 1983 by Subject "Weaning"

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  • Effect of regrouping unfamiliar pigs at weaning on immune function
    Blecha, Frank; Pollmann, D.S.; Nichols, D.A. (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, 1983)
    Pigs weaned at 3 weeks of age and regrouped with unfamiliar individuals had a 4-fold increase in plasma cortisol when compared to pigs that remained in a litter group. However, cellular measures of immune function were not ...
  • Housing sows after weaning: re-establishment of estrus and subsequent reproduction
    Schmidt, W.E.; Davis, D.L.; Stevenson, J.S. (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, 1983)
    We penned sows after weaning either in groups of 4 or 5 or individually in gestation stalls. Beginning 3 days after weaning sows were checked twice daily and artificially inseminated 24 and 36 hr after first detected ...