A flooring comparison: The impact of rubber mats on the health, behavior, and welfare of group-housed sows at breeding
Comfortable flooring may impact many aspects of an animal’s welfare, including lying behavior, an animal’s ability to change postures, and incidence of lameness and lesions. Therefore, we hypothesized that the addition of rubber mats to stalls of group pens would improve sow health, comfort and welfare during breeding. In this study, Landrace × Yorkshire sows (128) were […]