Early interactions with sows or humans help piglets perform

Australian researchers hypothesised that piglets that received early life interactions with the sow or humans display decreased responses to stressful events. They recently published about their findings in Frontiers in Animal Science. They evaluated the effects of maternal contact in farrowing crates and positive human contact in early life on the behavioural and physiological stress responses of piglets to routine stressors. Piglets in intensive production systems are exposed to various str