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Detecting tail biters by monitoring pig screams in weaning pigs
Scientific ReportsEarly identification of tail biting and intervention are necessary to reduce tail lesions and their impact on animal health and welfare. Removal of biters has become an effective intervention strategy, but finding them can be difficult and time-consuming.
Philipp Heseker +5 more
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Rearing Pigs with Intact Tails—Experiences and Practical Solutions in Sweden
Animals, 2019 Tail biting is a common issue within commercial pig production. It is mainly an indicator of inadequate housing environment and results in reduced health welfare and production.
Torun Wallgren +4 more
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Exposing tail biters by automatic scream detection
Smart Agricultural TechnologyTail biting is a major problem in pig husbandry and early intervention is essential to maintain animal health and welfare. To facilitate early identification of tail biters a detector software was created that can detect scream-linked biting events ...
Philipp Heseker +6 more
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A link between damaging behaviour in pigs, sanitary conditions, and dietary protein and amino acid supply. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The tendency to reduce crude protein (CP) levels in pig diets to increase protein efficiency may increase the occurrence of damaging behaviours such as ear and tail biting, particularly for pigs kept under suboptimal health conditions. We studied, in a 2×
Yvonne van der Meer +4 more
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More tail lesions among undocked than tail docked pigs in a conventional herd
Animal, 2017 The vast majority of piglets reared in the European Union (EU) and worldwide is tail docked to reduce the risk of being tail bitten, even though EU animal welfare legislation bans routine tail docking.
H.P. Lahrmann +4 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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Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2014 In spite of European legislation attempting to limit this practice, tail docking is nowadays the only preventive measure against tail biting which is widely adopted by farmers. Docking consists in amputating, usually without anaesthesia or analgesia, the
Eleonora Nannoni +3 more
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Scientific Opinion concerning a Multifactorial approach on the use of animal and non-animal-based measures to assess the welfare of pigs [PDF]
EFSA Journal, 2014 Pigs have a need for manipulable materials to satisfy a range of behavioural needs, which can be different in different classes of pig. When these needs are not met, a range of adverse welfare consequences result, one of these being an increased risk for
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW)
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Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift, 2020 Tail biting is one of the biggest problems in pig production systems that causes animal welfare and economic problems. Therefore, tail docking is a widely used intervention to reduce tail biting.
K Kauselmann +5 more
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Animal, 2019 Tail damage within the production of finisher pigs is an animal welfare problem. Recent research suggests that removal of known risk factors may not be enough to eliminate tail biting, especially in undocked pigs, thus a different strategy is worth ...
M.L.V. Larsen +2 more
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