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Litter productivity at first and second parity by gilts mated at different weights at first or second estrus

Creator:

Tachasirinugune, Sommai

Abstract:

Purebred Yorkshire gilts with weights ranging from 70 to 105 kilograms were moved from a total-confinement rearing unit to a total-confinement brood stock unit where approximately ten gilts per pen were mixed to provide new penmates. Each gilt was thus exposed to an unfamiliar environment and to foreign penmates along...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

study; to my M.S. program committee (Dr. James E. Oldfield, the Head of the Department of Animal