دورية أكاديمية

Infrared Thermography of the Mammary Gland in Sows with Regard to Health and Performance

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Infrared Thermography of the Mammary Gland in Sows with Regard to Health and Performance
المؤلفون: Stephan Rosengart, Bussarakam Chuppava, Dana Carina Schubert, Lea-Sophie Trost, Hubert Henne, Jens Tetens, Imke Traulsen, Ansgar Deermann, Christian Visscher, Michael Wendt
المصدر: Agriculture; Volume 11; Issue 10; Pages: 1013
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: swine diseases, welfare monitoring, sustainability, thermography, sow performance, pig production, postpartum dysgalactia syndrome, piglet performance
جغرافية الموضوع: agris
الوصف: Monitoring of sows’ health is the key to preventing and controlling diseases in sows, and it guarantees optimal rearing conditions for piglets. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the health status of sows shortly after parturition, and to analyze thermographic images of the mammary gland and the sows’ performance. Clinical examination of a total of 513 db.Viktoria hybrid sows was bundled individually using a modified score system. According to this, animals were divided into three health classes: healthy, clinically suspicious, and diseased. Simultaneously, the mammary glands were investigated by infrared thermography. Total born piglets (TBP), number of piglets born alive (NBA), and the daily weight gain of the piglets were significantly lower in the diseased group (p < 0.05). Regarding the results of the thermographic images of the mammary gland, significantly higher mean value of the warmest pixels was found in the diseased group (38.3 °C ± 0.57), while the significantly lowest value was reported in the healthy group (37.2 °C ± 0.54; p < 0.05). The results of this study show that thermography of the mammary gland at birth contains information that can help to identify diseased animals whose disease has negative effects on their piglets.
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اللغة: English
العلاقة: Farm Animal Production; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11101013Test
DOI: 10.3390/agriculture11101013
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11101013Test
حقوق: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.59BD508A
قاعدة البيانات: BASE