Two groups of 48 Cotswold piglets were weaned at 1791 d of age and
\nassigned to road or simulated transport during summer or winter. Following transport (0, 6, 12 or 24 h), piglets were
\ngrouped by weaning weight (light, medium and heavy) in pens of four. Piglet behaviour was recorded on days 1\u00014, 7 and 14
\nafter weaning and transport. As transport duration increased, drinking behaviour increased (P<0.05). Control (0 h) piglets\nfed less (1.5%) than transported piglets (3.1%) during the first 3 d in housing. Significant differences were observed on\ndays 2 and 3 only (P<0.02). Across season and transport treatment, heavy piglets spent more time fighting (P<0.005)\nduring the first day in housing, and less time feeding (P<0.05) during the first 3 d in housing compared with light and\nmedium piglets. During the first 3 d in weanling pens, piglets spent less time feeding following road transport (2.4%) than\nfollowing simulated transport (2.9%, P<0.05). Piglets transported by road also spent more time engaged in oral\/nasal\nbehaviour during the first 3 d in housing compared with simulated transport groups, although this reached significance on\nday 3 only (P<0.05). These results suggest that transport of early-weaned piglets may exacerbate the stress of weaning\nthrough additional stress related to factors associated with truck movement, such as noise and vibration, and by imposing\nan increased risk of dehydration following long journeys (>12 h).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two groups of 48 Cotswold piglets were weaned at 1791 d of age and assigned to road or simulated transport during summer or winter. Following transport (0, 6, 12 or 24 h), piglets were grouped by weaning weight (light, medium and heavy) in pens of four. Piglet behaviour was recorded on days 1\u00014, 7 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[8882,13816,90,19644,2800,6904,46,108,20007,47,5381,1039,15459,14,126,89,33,2365,1909,110,4644,20911,91,52,17978,3790,6244,15383,3325,77,3857,1301,3034],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","tag-al","tag-ass","tag-behaviour","tag-dd","tag-early-weaning","tag-fee","tag-feed","tag-feeding","tag-gh","tag-housing","tag-light","tag-noise","tag-ped","tag-pig","tag-piglet","tag-piglets","tag-pigs","tag-risk","tag-season","tag-stress","tag-summer","tag-t","tag-transport","tag-treatment","tag-wean-or-piglet-or-transport","tag-weaned","tag-weaned-pig","tag-weaned-piglet","tag-weaned-piglets","tag-weaning","tag-weaning-weight","tag-weight","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","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=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}