Socialising piglets before weaning improves social hierarchy formation when pigs are mixed post-weaning

By Rick B. D'Eath. 2005

182 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Small Animals, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8481c4847f5c40320a97bc82354741a52ccdbd2b

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In Animal Science and Zoology

1. Jessica E. Martin
2. Emma M. Baxter
3. S. Ison

In Small Animals

1. Jessica E. Martin
2. Emma M. Baxter
3. S. Ison

In Social Psychology

1. Jessica E. Martin
2. Emma M. Baxter
3. S. Ison

Citations in the corpus

• The influence of neonatal environment on piglet play behaviour and post-weaning social and cognitive development (2015, background): “However, resident-intruder tests (D’Eath, 2005) did emonstrate that socialised piglets were more aggressive o intruder piglets and engaged in fighting more quickly han un-socialised piglets (D’Eath, 2005; Kanaan et al.”
• Announcing the arrival of enrichment increases play behaviour and reduces weaning-stress-induced behaviours of piglets directly after weaning (2006, background): “A significant number of these studies concentrate on counteracting the weaning-induced weight loss (for a review, see Lewis and Southern (2001)), while only few studies (e.g., Weary et al., 2002; Pitts et al., 2000; D’Eath, 2005; toys: Blackshaw et al., 1997; chain/rubber hose: Hill et al., 1998) co”