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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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 +9 more
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Predicting tail-biting from behaviour of pigs prior to outbreaks [PDF]
, 2009 Predicting that an outbreak of tail-biting is going to Occur in a group of pigs would be a useful tool for farmers. In a prospective longitudinal study, 24 groups of c.30 unclocked pigs were followed from birth to slaughter weight.
Mendl, M. (Michael) +9 more
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A longitudinal study of the effects of providing straw at different stages of life on tail-biting and other behaviour in commercially housed pigs [PDF]
, 2011 Tail-biting (TB) is a welfare concern. Recent studies indicate that early provision of straw may help prevent TB, however, many of these studies were carried out on small groups of pigs and may have limited applicability to commercial farms.
Mendl, M. (Michael) +10 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 +6 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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Understanding Tail-Biting in Pigs through Social Network Analysis [PDF]
Animals, 2018 Haifeng Zhang, Lee Johnston
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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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Tail Posture as an Indicator of Tail Biting in Undocked Finishing Pigs. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2019 Tail posture (i.e., hanging or curled) has been suggested to be an indicator of tail biting, and hanging tails predisposed to damage. The aim of this study was to investigate if tail posture was feasible as a tail damage indicator in a commercial setting.
Wallgren T, Larsen A, Gunnarsson S.
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Factors identifying pigs predisposed to tail biting
Approximately 5% of pigs slaughtered in the UK have been tail-bitten, leading to welfare and production issues. Tail biting is sporadic and not all pigs tail bite.
Mercer JT +7 more
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