Martin Ganter

Jan 4, 2025 | actavetscand.biomedcentral.com | Isabel Hennig-Pauka |Martin Ganter |Wesley Lyons |Enric Marco |Glen W. Almond |Bettina Schneider | +3 more

The animal experiment was performed in a farrow-to-finish farm with 230 sows (Danbred genetics) and 2550 fattening places in a swine dense region in North-Western Germany. Farrowing intervals were five weeks with a four-week suckling period and farrowing groups of approximately 57 sows. Sows of one farrowing group farrowed in three farrowing units with 20 places each. No nurse sows were used, and split suckling was not performed.