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Time series of daily feed intake of a single sow. The vertical line indicates the date of mating. The two time series originate from the same sow and the deviations occur simultaneously in both time series. Studying the results of the rest of the unsuccessfully mated sows, it is seen that some sows seem to show deviations in one or both of the properties of eating behaviour
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The extension of production systems for group-housed sows has emphasized the need for im-proving management routines concerning oestrus detection. A correlation between oestrus and appetite seems to be supported by decreases in voluntary feed intake during the week of oestrus, and in the present study it is investigated, whether deviations in eatin...
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... observation on this day is identified as an outlier by a probability of ap- proximately 90 pct. Studying the time series of daily feed intake of the same sow in Figure 2, a single deviation is identified by a probability exceeding 90 pct. also on 21-08-1999 and it seems that eating behaviour is affected by oestrus, indicated by deviations in both time of first feeding visit and daily feed intake in the days before oestrus. ...
