Sows fecundity by the maintenance system

• Main Author: Diana Marin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Agroprint Timisoara 2014-05-01
• Series: Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies
• Online Access: http://spasb.ro/index.php/spasb/article/view/1783

Fecundity registered by the females housed in groupboxes, with different capacities, has an average of 85.11 ± 1.48, the bestresults obtained for females housed in boxes with a capacity of 7 heads, 87.39± 1, 47. The proportion of pregnant female at 28 days after artificialinsemination decreases with increasing number of animals housed in boxes, so inthe case of the animals kept in boxes of 14 animals, fecundity at 28 days was84.17 ± 0, 93, and in the case of animals kept in boxes with capacity of 28animals, the fecundity at 28 days was 83.76 ± 2.05. The difference betweenfecundity recorded in case of animals maintained in boxes of 7 ​​heads was significant compared to fecundityof animals maintained in boxes with 14 and 28 heads (χ2 test p <0.001).