早期社交活动降低仔猪断奶压力

　　CANADA - A research scientist with the Prairie Swine Centre says, piglets that are given an early opportunity to socialize, will be better prepared to deal with the stresses they face at weaning, writes Bruce Cochrane.Weaning is recognized as a particularly difficult stage in production.This is because the piglets have been in a very static environment to that point and we're compounding multiple stresses in one event including moving them to a different environment and a different social group at a time when we expect them to start eating feed and drinking from a nipple drinker.

　　布鲁斯·科克伦(Bruce Cochrane)写到，据加拿大一名牧场养猪中心(Prairie Swine Centre)的科学家说，仔猪获得早期社交活动的机会，将会更好的应对在它们断奶时受到的压力。断奶在生产中被认为是最难熬的阶段。因为仔猪在断奶前处于一个稳定的环境。在此时，当我们期待仔猪开始进食并且通过乳头吮吸器饮水，我们一次给仔猪施加了多种压力，这些压力来自把它们移动到不同的环境或者不同的社交群体。