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Publication Date: March 9, 2012
Reference: livestockwelfare.com Research Watch 2012
Country: Canada
Summary:
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Researchers trying to reduce boar taint and mounting behavior found no significant results. By housing boars with litter mates and feeding them simultaneously researchers found no reduction in mounting behavior compared to boars penned randomly and fed non-simultaneously. Also pen mates and feeding procedure had no effects on boar taint.