Effects of Type of Sow Gestation Housing on Growth Performance and Reproduction in Gilt Offspring
Published: September 23, 2008
Summary
An exciting and growing body of scientific evidence supports the notion that the maternal environment in which fetuses develop plays a profound role in the development of the reproductive and other physiologic systems. Fetal programming refers to the process by which an acute or chronic stimulus in utero (i.e., in the uterus) establishes a permanent response in the fetus that impacts physiologic...
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23 de septiembre de 2008
For any serious notice to be taken from these observations very significantly larger numbers of animals have to be involved. Not only are tiny numbers involved, of necessity the conditions within treatments have to be so homogenous that translation to another circumstance means that confidence of a repeat result is presumptuous. All it really tells us is that more work may well be worthwhile.
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