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Clinical conditions of pigs in outdoor breeding herds
Author(s) -
Potter Richard
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.211
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2042-7689
pISSN - 0263-841X
DOI - 10.1136/inpract.20.1.3
Subject(s) - herd , population , veterinary medicine , environmental health , geography , medicine , zoology , biology
CURRENTLY over 25 per cent of the UK sow population is kept outdoors, compared to around 4 per cent in the early 1980s. The health of outdoor pigs tends to be better than that of their indoor counterparts. Nevertheless, there are a number of problems and diseases that commonly affect the outdoor breeding herd and these are considered in this article.