A note on social facilitation and competition in the feeding behaviour of pigs
Liang Chou Hsia; Wood Gush, D.G.M.
Animal Production 37(1): 149-152
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-3561
DOI: 10.1017/s0003356100001677
Accession: 001154723
Sixteen castrated Large White X Landrace male pigs weighing 34.1 kg were kept in a seprate room, in 4 individual stalls in a room or in groups of 4 with one long feeding trough or separate feeding troughs.
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