Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 6/12/17

What a pig sees when it looks into a mirror may help Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists improve livestock housing. Studying livestock behavior, stress and other well-being and production factors is the job of animal scientist Jeremy Marchant-Forde and his colleagues at the ARS Livestock Behavior Research Unit in West Lafayette, Indiana. Improving an animal’s environment can reduce stress, which in turn, enhances well-being, growth and efficiency, and decreases disease susceptibility.

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