Hog Researcher Finds Home Court Advantage
“Home court advantage”
applies to pigs as well as to
people, an animal scientist with
The Pennsylvania State
University has found. In this
case, however, the “home court”
is a baby pig’s preferred teat on
the sow.
Studying piglets in three litters,
graduate assistant Thomas G.
Hartsock, found that individual
baby pigs win a higher
percentage of fights at their
“home teat” after preference is
established than before. As might
be expected, the same piglets
also lose more fights when
nursing away from their “home
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teat” after preference is
established.
Working toward a graduate
degree in animal nutrition,
Hartsock observed that piglets
associate themselves with a
single teat as early as 5 hours of
age. Nearly 85 per cent of the
baby pigs in Hartsock’s studies
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milk, Hartsock said. Those baby
pigs weighing the most at birth
were the most dominant,
established a teat preference
fastest, and gained more weight
in the first 21 days than their
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lighter weight littermates.
In all litters studies, fighting
declined with age as teat
preferences were established. No
sex differences were apparent
with respect to fighting success.
Hartsock noted that the smallest
piglets were not successful
fighters due to their size, and that
these piglets were those mostly
likely to become “runts” because
of their inability to claim a
“good” teat.
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