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Exploring breeding opportunities for reduced thermal sensitivity of feed intake in the lactating sow.
Journal of animal science - 1 Jan 2012
Bergsma R, Hermesch S
Abstract excerpt
The aims of this study were, first, to evaluate the effects of climatic variables on daily feed intake of lactating sows and, second, to establish whether the response of sows to variation in temperature on feed intake during lactation was heritable. A total of 82,614 records for daily feed intake during lactation were available for 848 sows with 3,369 litters farrowing from January 2000 to December 2007....
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