The weaker sex? The propensity for male-biased piglet mortality.

For the most part solutions to farm animal welfare issues, such as piglet mortality, are likely to lie within the scientific disciplines of environmental design and genetic selection, however understanding the ecological basis of some of the complex dynamics observed between parent and offspring cou...

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Main Authors: Emma M Baxter, Susan Jarvis, Javier Palarea-Albaladejo, Sandra A Edwards
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3260262?pdf=render