Cross-fostering practices allow the number of piglets to be adapted to the number of teats of the sow resulting in a decrease in piglet mortality.
Considering the range of expected responses and receptor status combinations studied, 40 piglets might have been insufficient to estimate all parameters.
Successful piglet production after transfer of blastocysts produced by a modified in vitro system.
Calves as well as piglets were obtained from commercial herds.
No macroscopical changes were detected in the 1 piglet, which survived throughout the study (no. 2) or in any of the controls.
This was investigated in calves and piglets from commercial herds.
We assume that piglet birth weights are independently and identically distributed within one litter.
Postnatal death of young piglets and excessive weight of the offspring were also not observed.
