Early-life risk factors predicting growth retardation and mortality in pigs: a multi-criteria approach.

This finding is both novel and highly significant, as it demonstrates that events occurring during the first week of life can be as important, or even more important, than birth BW, which has previously been identified as the primary indicator of postnatal performance ( Gondret et al., 2005 ; Rehfeldt et al., 2008 ; Fix et al., 2010 ).

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