The Effect of Different Farrowing Housing Systems on the Reproductive Performance of Sows and the Losses and Growth of Piglets

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43210%2F24%3A43925409" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43210/24:43925409 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00027014:_____/24:10006009

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14071084" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14071084</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14071084" target="_blank" >10.3390/agriculture14071084</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Effect of Different Farrowing Housing Systems on the Reproductive Performance of Sows and the Losses and Growth of Piglets

Original language description

The aim of the experiment was to analyze the reproductive performance of sows and the losses and growth of piglets in three different systems of farrowing houses. A total of 120 sows of the Prestice Black-Pied breed were included in the study with 40 litters evaluated in each of the systems. The housing systems compared were conventional farrowing cages, pens with temporary fixation, and free farrowing pens. The housing system significantly affected the length of pregnancy (p &lt; 0.05). Its effect was 0.35 days shorter in the sows in the free-farrowing system than in the cage technology and 0.6 days shorter than in the temporary fixation. Housing also influenced the onset of post-weaning oestrus (p &lt; 0.01), which occurred 0.31 days earlier in the sows in a free-farrowing system and in those in pens with temporary fixation. A significant effect of housing on the overall losses of piglets (p &lt; 0.05) was also found. The crushing of piglets by sows was also significantly affected by the housing system (p &lt; 0.05), with the highest incidence found in the free-farrowing system. The effect of the housing system on the individual weaning weight of piglets was also found to be significant (p &lt; 0.001). The piglets of the sows in the free housing system showed higher growth intensity when compared to piglets in the other housing systems. In conclusion, it can be stated that the lowest losses caused by the crushing of piglets were found in the cage systems. However, the combined system seems to be very perspective in terms of losses of piglets. The free-farrowing system has positive effects on the growth of piglets.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40203 - Husbandry

Project

<a href="/en/project/QK23020085" target="_blank" >QK23020085: New approaches in piglet production with focus on welfare, environmental protection and production economics</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Agriculture

ISSN

2077-0472

e-ISSN

2077-0472

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1084

UT code for WoS article

001277887200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85199792369