A floor overlay for reducing leg abrasion injuries on piglets
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Phillips, P.A. and Pawluczuk, B. 1995. A floor overlay for reducing leg abrasion injuries on piglets. Can. Agric. Eng. 37:231-233. Piglet leg abrasions were reduced by using strips of 6 mm-thick, polyester pile, latex-backed material as a floor overlay in the suckling areas of the farrowing pen. Carpel joint injuries in 20 litters offered the overlay were significantly lower (P < 0.00 I) than in 20 litters with no overlay on a mostly concrete floor (mean injury score 9.5 vs. 93.4, respectively). While seeming to offer only a small improvement in floor resilience, the overlay greatly reduced knee abrasion injuries on piglets. Les eraflures aux pattes de porcelets ont ete reduites en utilisant des bandes de materiel en polyester recouvert de latex, d'une epaisseur de 8 mm, pour recouvrir Ie plancher dans les zones d'allaitement des cases de mise bas. Les blessures aux articulations du carpe pour les 20 portees situees dans les cases ou Ie plancher etait recouvert des bandes ont ete significativement moins elevees (p) que pour les 20 portees situees dans des cases sans bandes, ou Ie plancher etait essentiellement en beton (les scores moyen pour les blessures etaient respectivement 9.5 et 93.4). Alors que Ie materiau de recouvrement n/a semble offrir qu"une petite amelioration au niveau de la resilience, il a largement reduit les blessures par ecorchures aux genoux des porcelets.
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