Group space allowance has little effect on sow health, productivity, or welfare in a free-access stall system.

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Journal of Animal Science

• Publication date

  2014-06-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2527/jas.2013-7352PMID 24668955
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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