Utilization of Optical Flow Algorithms to Monitor Development of Tail Biting Outbreaks in Pigs [PDF]
Animals, 2020 A study was conducted to evaluate activity changes in pigs associated with the development of tail-biting outbreaks using optical flow algorithms. Pigs (n = 120; initial body weight = 25 ± 2.9 kg) housed in four pens of 30 pigs were studied for 13 ...
Yuzhi Z. Li +2 more
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Assessing Decision Support Tools for Mitigating Tail Biting in Pork Production: Current Progress and Future Directions. [PDF]
Animals (Basel)Simple Summary Tail biting in pigs is an abnormal event where one pig engages in the biting, chewing, or oral manipulation of another pig’s tail. The repeat biting of the wounded site can lead to pain, infection, and the possible mortality of the victim ...
Ward SA +4 more
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Characteristics of biter and victim piglets apparent before a tail-biting outbreak [PDF]
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
J.J. Zonderland +5 more
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Approximate MAP Decoding on Tail-Biting Trellises
Proceedings. International Symposium on Information Theory, 2005. ISIT 2005., 2005 We propose two approximate algorithms for MAP decoding on tail-biting trellises. The algorithms work on a subset of nodes of the tail-biting trellis, judiciously selected.
Madhu, A. S., Shankar, Priti
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209 Influence of litter origin on performance and tail biting in growing-finishing pigs [PDF]
J Anim SciTail biting is a multifactorial phenomenon with many aspects contributing to a tail biting outbreak. Little is known about how social structures influence tail biting.
Courtney A Archer +5 more
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Behavioural and Brain Gene Expression Profiling in Pigs during Tail Biting Outbreaks - Evidence of a Tail Biting Resistant Phenotype. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Abnormal tail biting behaviour is a major welfare problem for pigs receiving the behaviour, as well as an indication of decreased welfare in the pigs performing it.
Emma Brunberg +3 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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Association Between Tail-Biting and Intestinal Microbiota Composition in Pigs. [PDF]
Front Vet Sci, 2020 Tail-biting (TB) in pigs is a serious behavioral disorder. It is an important challenge in swine production as it impacts animal welfare and health and the economics and safety of the pork meat supply chain. To prevent TB, approaches including enrichment
Rabhi N +10 more
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Convolutional and tail-biting quantum error-correcting codes [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2005 Rate-(n-2)/n unrestricted and CSS-type quantum convolutional codes with up to 4096 states and minimum distances up to 10 are constructed as stabilizer codes from classical self-orthogonal rate-1/n F_4-linear and binary linear convolutional codes ...
Forney, Jr., G. David +2 more
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