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Facilitating ‘learning from mom how to eat like a pig’ to improve welfare of piglets around weaning
Marije Oostindjer, Bas Kemp, Henry van den Brand, J. Elizabeth Bolhuis Applied Animal Behaviour Science Volume 160, Pages (November 2014) DOI: /j.applanim Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. Terms and Conditions
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Fig. 1 Overview of weaning related problems. Dietary and other changes ultimately result in low feed intake, gastro-intestinal problems, poor growth and welfare problems Figure reprinted from (Bolhuis et al., 2009) with permission from Wageningen Academic Publishers. Applied Animal Behaviour Science , 19-30DOI: ( /j.applanim ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. Terms and Conditions
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Fig. 2 Play behaviour (substrate play, rolling, pivoting, gambolling), manipulative behaviour (nibbling, sucking or chewing part of the body of another piglet) and belly nosing (rubbing belly of pen mate with up and down movements of the snout) in the first 2 weeks postweaning of piglets that switched environments (barren preweaning to enriched postweaning, or enriched preweaning to barren postweaning) at weaning, and that were housed together with a confined (limited opportunities for interaction) or loose-housed sow (increased opportunities for interaction) before weaning. Applied Animal Behaviour Science , 19-30DOI: ( /j.applanim ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. Terms and Conditions
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Fig. 3 Proposed time line of effects of being able to interact more with the mother, enrichment and flavour learning on development of the ability to adapt to the postweaning situation. Applied Animal Behaviour Science , 19-30DOI: ( /j.applanim ) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. Terms and Conditions
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