PIG RESPONSE TO HEAT STRESS REVISITED
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Each pig breed has its own features and specific demands such as food, shelter, temperature, and water. Ambient temperature, environmental heat, gestational heat stress, heat stress, high ambient temperature, high temperature, high temperature in summer, season, short-term heat stress exposure, and variation in ambient temperature impact pig behaviour, growth, immune response, metabolism, physiology, production, and thermoregulation in boars, fattening pigs, foetal pigs, finisher / finishing pigs, gilts, grower / growing pigs, lactating sows, piglets, pigs (in general), and sows.
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