{"id":5648,"date":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/export.maxmaziy.php.nixsolutions.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2012-01-03T14:48:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T20:48:05","slug":"maternal-responsiveness-of-sows-towards-piglet%e2%80%99s-screams-during-the-first-24-h-postpartum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/maternal-responsiveness-of-sows-towards-piglet%e2%80%99s-screams-during-the-first-24-h-postpartum\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternal responsiveness of sows towards piglet\u2019s screams during the first 24 h postpartum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this study we focused on sow responsiveness towards piglet screams which are proposed to have an<br \/>\nimportant link to posture changes and early piglet crushing. A sow\u2019s responsiveness to screams of her piglets was<br \/>\ninvestigated along the first 24 h after birth, the period of highest mortality, in 15 lactating sows housed in<br \/>\nfarrowing crates.We compared the sow\u2019s response to playbacks of screams of trapped piglets to her response to a<br \/>\ncontrol sound during birth, 8\u201312 h postpartum and 20\u201324 h postpartum. We did the same with playbacks of<br \/>\nscreams of fighting piglets during nursings 8\u201312 h postpartum and 20\u201324 h postpartum. The sow\u2019 responsiveness<br \/>\nto screams of own trapped piglets was analyzed within the whole 24 h and to screams of fighting piglets<br \/>\n30 min between 8 and 12 h postpartum and 30 min between 20 and 24 h postpartum. A sow was scored as<br \/>\nresponsive if she changed her posture in response to the stimuli. Sows had a four times higher response towards<br \/>\nplaybacks with screams than towards the control stimulus. The proportion of the sows\u2019 responsiveness to<br \/>\nscreams (44%) of trapped piglets did not change significantly between birth, 8\u201312 h postpartum and 20\u201324 h<br \/>\npostpartum. Sows responded to 28% of playbacks of fighting piglets by terminating a nursing independently<br \/>\nfrom the time after birth. Playbacks and real screams of own piglets were similarly effective in evoking a<br \/>\nresponse for both types of screams. There was no significant association between the sows\u2019 responsiveness to<br \/>\nscreams of trapped piglets and piglet mortality nor between screams of fighting piglets and weight gain. In<br \/>\nconclusion our results indicate that sows maintained their responsiveness towards piglet screams during trapping<br \/>\nand during fighting for teats within the first 24 h. Playbacks and real screams were similarly effective in evoking a<br \/>\nresponse. We discuss the importance of the sound characteristics of piglet screams related to the sows\u2019 response.<\/p>\n<p>For more information the full article can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.elsevierhealth.com\/periodicals\/applan\/issues\">http:\/\/journals.elsevierhealth.com\/periodicals\/applan\/issues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this study we focused on sow responsiveness towards piglet screams which are proposed to have an important link to posture changes and early piglet crushing. A sow\u2019s responsiveness to screams of her piglets was investigated along the first 24 h after birth, the period of highest mortality, in 15 lactating sows housed in farrowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[928],"tags":[8882,13816,2863,26550,6604,5886,103,1468,20007,111,5683,6825,3442,606,14784,15459,14,126,13624,7160,89,16262,104,96,17206,20911,4874,1301],"class_list":["post-5648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welfare","tag-al","tag-ass","tag-birth","tag-crush","tag-domestic-pigs-maternal-behaviour-vocalization-communication-mortality","tag-farrow","tag-farrowing","tag-farrowing-crates","tag-gh","tag-health","tag-lactating","tag-lactating-sow","tag-lactating-sows","tag-mortality","tag-ness","tag-ped","tag-pig","tag-piglet","tag-piglet-crushing","tag-piglet-mortality","tag-piglets","tag-pl","tag-sow","tag-sows","tag-sucram-c150","tag-t","tag-tan","tag-weight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648","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=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11134,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions\/11134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}