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The Evidence for a Causal Link Between Disease and Damaging Behavior in Pigs

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Damaging behaviors (DB) such as tail and ear biting are prevalent in pig production and reduce welfare and performance. Anecdotal reports suggest that health challenges increase the risk of tail-biting.
Laura A. Boyle, Sandra A. Edwards, J. Elizabeth Bolhuis, Françoise Pol, Manja Zupan Šemrov, Sabine Schütze, Janicke Nordgreen, Nadya Bozakova, Evangelia N. Sossidou, Anna Valros   +9 more
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Automatic early warning of tail biting in pigs: 3D cameras can detect lowered tail posture before an outbreak. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Tail biting is a major welfare and economic problem for indoor pig producers worldwide. Low tail posture is an early warning sign which could reduce tail biting unpredictability.
Richard B D'Eath, Mhairi Jack, Agnieszka Futro, Darren Talbot, Qiming Zhu, David Barclay, Emma M Baxter   +6 more
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Understanding Tail-Biting in Pigs through Social Network Analysis [PDF]

Animals, 2018
Haifeng Zhang, Lee Johnston
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Influence of tail biting on weight gain, lesions and condemnations at slaughter of finishing pigs

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2012
The present study assessed the association of tail-biting lesions in finishing pigs with weight gain, occurrence of locomotion or respiratory disorders and abscesses during finishing period, and carcass condemnation at slaughter.
Brenda Maria F.P.P. Marques, Mari L. Bernardi, Carolini F. Coelho, Mirian Almeida, Oscar E. Morales, Tiago J. Mores, Sandra M. Borowski, David E.S.N. Barcellos   +7 more
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Jejunal morphology and blood metabolites in tail biting, victim and control pigs

Animal, 2013
Tail biting has several identified feeding-related risk factors. Tail biters are often said to be lighter and thinner than other pigs in the pen, possibly because of nutrition-related problems such as reduced feed intake or inability to use nutrients ...
P.A. Palander, M. Heinonen, I. Simpura, S.A. Edwards, A.E. Valros   +4 more
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The Influence of Tail Biting on Performance of Fattening Pigs [PDF]

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 1996
In comparison to 29 non bitten animals, severe tail biting was found to decrease the daily weight gain (DWG) by 25% in 8 fattening pigs during the period of biting. However, when comparing the weight gain of the lifetime between bitten and non bitten pigs, no influence of the tail biting was found.
P, Wallgren, E, Lindahl
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Tail biting in pigs: blood serotonin and fearfulness as pieces of the puzzle? [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Tail biting in pigs is a widespread problem in intensive pig farming. The tendency to develop this damaging behaviour has been suggested to relate to serotonergic functioning and personality characteristics of pigs. We investigated whether tail biting in
Winanda W Ursinus, Cornelis G Van Reenen, Inonge Reimert, J Elizabeth Bolhuis   +3 more
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Activity and synchrony patterns obtained by a tracking-by-detection algorithm as potential predictors of tail biting at pen and individual level in pigs

Animal
Tail biting is a major welfare concern in pigs. Timely interventions may help to reduce its spread in an outbreak. However, tail biting is usually detected only at an injury stage. Therefore, early indicators are needed to predict outbreaks.
C.A.E.M. Orsini, S. Huo, J.D. Bus, Q. Guo, Y. Sun, L. van der Zande, P.P.J.H. Langenhuizen, P.H.N. de With, P. Bijma, J.E. Bolhuis, I. Reimert   +10 more
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Characteristic Generators and Dualization for Tail-Biting Trellises [PDF]

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2011
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Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, Elizabeth A. Weaver   +1 more
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Approximate MAP decoding on tail-biting trellises

Proceedings. International Symposium on Information Theory, 2005. ISIT 2005., 2005
5 pages, 2 figures, ISIT ...
A. S. Madhu, Priti Shankar
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