Within-litter variation of birth weight in hyperprolific Czech Large White sows and its relation to litter size traits, stillborn piglets and losses until weaning

By J. Wolf, E. Žáková, Eildert Groeneveld. 2008

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Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Genetics, Small Animals

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• Non-infectious causes of pre-weaning mortality in piglets (2016, background): “In addition, the within-litter BW variation is positively correlated with PWM (Milligan et al., 2002; Wolf et al., 2008), because small piglets cannot compete with their larger littermate pigs, resulting in low BW piglets with a low nutritional status and poor passive immunity (Quiniou et al.”