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Genetic Parameters of Water and Feed Intake and Behavior Traits of Wean-to-Finish Pigs Under a Polymicrobial Natural Disease Challenge
2021-03-01
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>BackgroundThe pork industry faces unprecedented challenges from disease, which increases cost of production and use of antibiotics, and reduces production efficiency, carcass quality, and animal wellbeing. One solution is to improve the overall resilience of pigs to a broad array of common diseases through genetic selection. Behavioral changes in eating and drinking are usually the very...
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- 51970ccd-ede6-5193-8202-31811fa0e1ae
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-249650/v1