Difference in health and behaviour between two different pig line crosses ; Skillnad i hälsa och beteende mellan två olika grislinje-korsningar

The most common housing system within the European Union for gestating sows and gilts have for many years been individual stalls while Sweden on the contrary has a long history, since the end of the 1980s, of group housing. The switch of breeding material in the beginning of the 2000ies in Sweden resulted in the end of breeding of the Swedish Yorkshire (SY), and instead the Dutch Yorkshire (ZY) was introduced to Swedish pig producers. Because the genetic selection of these two lines of York-shire pigs have been performed in different environments, this may have cause be-havioural differences b... Mehr ...