{"id":19652,"date":"2017-07-06T11:23:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19652"},"modified":"2017-07-06T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T17:23:08","slug":"effects-of-large-group-sizes-on-performance-of-grower-finisher-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/effects-of-large-group-sizes-on-performance-of-grower-finisher-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"EFFECTS OF LARGE GROUP SIZES ON PERFORMANCE OF GROWER-FINISHER PIGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the basis of these experiments, forming grower-finisher pigs into group sizes of up to 108 pigs\/pen\u00a0does not appear to have any detrimental effects on overall performances. Commonly held fears of\u00a0increased levels of aggression and behavioural vices with increasing group sizes were not substantiated in\u00a0our experiments. Housing pigs up to 108 pigs with adequate resources appears to have only minor effects\u00a0on productivity and social behaviour of grower-finisher pigs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/EFFECTS-OF-LARGE-GROUP-SIZES-ON-PERFORMANCE.pdf\">EFFECTS OF LARGE GROUP SIZES ON PERFORMANCE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the basis of these experiments, forming grower-finisher pigs into group sizes of up to 108 pigs\/pen\u00a0does not appear to have any detrimental effects on overall performances. Commonly held fears of\u00a0increased levels of aggression and behavioural vices with increasing group sizes were not substantiated in\u00a0our experiments. Housing pigs up to 108 pigs with adequate resources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,931,930,928],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre","category-production","category-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19652","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=19652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19655,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19652\/revisions\/19655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}