STUDY ON SOW CULLING RISKS IN A LARGE-SCALE PIG FARM

Sow culling is a significant task for animal breeders and farmers; moreover, itprovides a basis for profitable pork production as well. The reason for culling themajority of sows is their low productivity. 15-20% of culled sows farrows only once,and sows in product-manufacturing farms generally do n...

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Main Authors: P. BALOGH, I. ERTSEY, S. KOVÁCS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Agroprint Timisoara 2007-10-01
Series:Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies
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Online Access:http://spasb.ro/index.php/spasb/article/view/1492