Interactive Rooting Towers and Behavioural Observations as Strategies to Reduce Tail Biting on Conventional Pig Fattening Farms [PDF]
Animals, 2021 Eight pens (25 pigs/pen; n = 200) provided with an interactive straw-filled rooting tower (experimental group) and five pens (25 pigs/pen; n = 125) with a stationary (fixed) tower without straw (control group) were compared within three fattening periods
Anne Kalies +7 more
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Prediction of Tail Biting Events in Finisher Pigs from Automatically Recorded Sensor Data [PDF]
Animals, 2019 Tail biting in pigs is an animal welfare problem, and tail biting should be prevented from developing into tail damage. One strategy could be to predict events of tail biting so that the farmer can make timely interventions in specific pens.
Mona Lilian Vestbjerg Larsen +2 more
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Producer Perceptions of the Prevention of Tail Biting on UK Farms: Association to Bedding Use and Tail Removal Proportion [PDF]
Animals, 2019 Tail biting causes widespread problems both for animal welfare and in the form of economic losses in pig production. This study was performed to better understand the perceptions of farmers on how to best prevent tail biting, and if perceptions are ...
Anna Valros, Claire Barber
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Managing undocked pigs – on-farm prevention of tail biting and attitudes towards tail biting and docking [PDF]
Porcine Health Management, 2016 Tail biting is a common and serious welfare problem in pig production, causing large economical losses. Tail docking is performed routinely in most EU countries to reduce the tail biting risk. However, tail docking is painful, and does not prevent tail biting totally.
Valros, Anna +4 more
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Can increased dietary fibre level and a single enrichment device reduce the risk of tail biting in undocked growing-finishing pigs in fully slatted systems? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 This study evaluated the effectiveness of combined dietary and enrichment strategies to manage tail biting in pigs with intact tails in a conventional fully-slatted floor housing system. A 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design was used. Pigs had either a high fibre
Jen-Yun Chou +3 more
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The Importance of the Social Sciences in Reducing Tail Biting Prevalence in Pigs [PDF]
Animals, 2019 Tail biting in pigs has been recognised as a welfare problem for several decades, being referred to in scientific literature as far back as the 1940s. Today, animal welfare scientists have a solid understanding of the aetiology of tail biting.
Grace A. Carroll, Jenny M. Groarke
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Characteristics of biter and victim piglets apparent before a tail-biting outbreak
Animal, 2011 Little is known about the characteristics of biters and victims before the appearance of a tail-biting outbreak in groups of pigs. This study aimed to characterise biters and victims (according to gender and performance) and to quantify their behavioural
Bas Kemp, L A Den Hartog
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Is There a Link between Suckling and Manipulation Behavior during Rearing in Pigs?
Animals, 2021 Inadequate possibilities to perform oral manipulation behavior for pigs can lead to misdirection and thus tail biting. Our study aimed to analyze manipulation behaviors of weaner pigs with focus on tail biting and the relationship with agonistic ...
Friederike K. Warns +4 more
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Reducing complexity of tail-biting trellises [PDF]
2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, 2012 5 pages; submitted to the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information ...
Heide Gluesing-Luerssen +1 more
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Local Irreducibility of Tail-Biting Trellises [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2013 This paper investigates tail-biting trellis realizations for linear block codes. Intrinsic trellis properties are used to characterize irreducibility on given intervals of the time axis. It proves beneficial to always consider the trellis and its dual simultaneously.
Heide Gluesing-Luerssen +1 more
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