{"id":15278,"date":"2014-01-20T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T21:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=15278"},"modified":"2014-01-20T15:35:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T21:35:52","slug":"re-grouping-and-timing-of-re-grouping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/re-grouping-and-timing-of-re-grouping\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Grouping and Timing of Re-Grouping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science of Ethology Volume 1, Issue 5<\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest objections to group housing of sows is the fear of aggression among the animals. The vast majority of\u00a0aggression in groups of sows occurs either at the time of re-grouping, or during the daily feeding. Re-grouping aggression\u00a0may be intense, but is generally short-lived and contributes to acute stress. Feeding aggression is repeated daily and can\u00a0be considered a chronic source of tension and stress within the group. The issue of feeding aggression has previously been\u00a0addressed in our discussion of feeding systems. In this article we will examine re-grouping aggression and its impact on\u00a0management and productivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science of Ethology Volume 1, Issue 5 One of the greatest objections to group housing of sows is the fear of aggression among the animals. The vast majority of\u00a0aggression in groups of sows occurs either at the time of re-grouping, or during the daily feeding. Re-grouping aggression\u00a0may be intense, but is generally short-lived and contributes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,928],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-15278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-welfare","tag-feeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15280,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278\/revisions\/15280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}