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Provedor de dados: 	63	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Microenvironments in swine farrowing rooms: the thermal, lighting, and acoustic environments of sows and piglets	
Autores: 	Morello,Gabriela Munhoz; Lay Jr.,Donald C.; Rodrigues,Luiz Henrique Antunes; Richert,Brian T.; Marchant-Forde,Jeremy Neville.	
Data: 	2018-01-01	
Ano: 	2018	
Palavras-chave: 	Environmental controls; Swine production; Pig welfare; Microclimate; Farrowing crate.	
Resumo: 	ABSTRACT: The present research hypothesized that the thermal, lighting and acoustic environments in commercial swine farrowing rooms vary over time and from crate to crate. This study was conducted on 27 replicates in two commercial farrowing rooms in North Central Indiana, each equipped with 60 farrowing crates. Temperature, relative humidity, light intensity, sound intensity, and air velocity were continuously monitored and estimated for each crate at the sow level, for 48 h post-farrowing, which is usually a critical period for piglet survivability. Average daily temperature for all the crates in Room 1 was 24.1 ± 2.0 °C, 1.0 °C lower (p &lt; 0.05) than in Room 2. Although the overall mean temperature was similar between rooms and seasons, frequency distribution diagrams revealed that the proportion of time spent within distinct limits of mean daily temperature ranged from 15.0 °C to 28.0 °C and varied substantially between rooms and seasons. Similar results were found for all variables measured in this study. Differences in temperature, relative humidity, light intensity, air velocity, and sound intensity in crates were as high as 9.6 °C, 57 %, 3,847.3 Lx, 0.87 m s–1, and 38.7 dBC, respectively, in the same farrowing room when measured at the same instant. The results of the present research indicate that aspects that go beyond the physical environment of the sows, such as thermal, lighting, and acoustic environment can vary substantially over time and between crates of automatically climate controlled farrowing rooms. These differences should be taken into consideration in production setting and research.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162018000100001	
Editor: 	São Paulo - Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz"	
Relação: 	10.1590/1678-992x-2016-0303	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Scientia Agricola  v.75 n.1 2018	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess