On the 3rd day (3.4 ± 1.0 days) p.p., routine procedures were applied to the piglets (iron injection, castration). After that separation, the sow’s reaction (Table 2) upon reunion with her piglets was assessed. Any piglet-related reaction was scored as pleasure to be reunited with the piglets again. This resulted in 1306 observations.
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