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Patterns of non-nutritive electronic sow feeders use can relate to sow welfare status in pregnancy.

Ear and tail damage are heritable traits and are moderately positively correlated.

The autoregressive moving average model with exogenous variables demonstrated strong accuracy in predicting water usage, effectively capturing trends and deviations in water use.

Diet blending may improve feed efficiency without impact on carcass quality in finishing pigs.

This study highlighted the possible differences that may arise in WQ® scoring depending on the time of the assessment during a growing period.

These preliminary results can be used to target research on disinfectants which contain active ingredients with known efficacy against ASFV.

Results suggest that Iberian pigs are furnished with increased metabolic flexibility to face short-term stress.

Lactational stress resulted in increased cortisol in sow milk and saliva.

Buserelin has advantages in centralizing induced ovulation and thus improving fixed-time artificial insemination outcomes.

Only some of the measured nutritive and non-nutritive sow factors influenced litter performance and behaviour, with parity and litter size also playing a role.

Boar breeding environments affect the stress response and emotionality of their offspring.

A novel quick in-pen laser test to assess piglet personality traits while minimizing environmental and handling interferences.

Grinding teeth decreased the teat lesion score on day 21 of lactation but did not influence the mortality rate or litter weight gain.

Ramp exposure during the nursery phase reduced ramp loading duration at market weight.

Engaging in play increases heart rate variability, with this effect persisting into the period immediately after play.