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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
doaj   +1 more source

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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Tail biting in pigs, genes or environment? [PDF]

, 2009
Tail-biting in pigs is an animal welfare issue and in Sweden during 2002 the producers lost tree million Swedish crowns because of tail biting. This economic loss depends on the pigs which are discarded at slaughter because of tail biting.
Carlsson, Marie
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Factors identifying pigs predisposed to tail biting [PDF]

, 2005
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.
M. E. M. Sutcliffe, Breuer, K., Sutcliffe, M. E. M., S. A. Edwards, O'Connell, N. E.; id_orcid, Sneddon, I. A., V. E. Beattie, Mercer, J. T., K. Breuer, Edwards, S. A., Rance, K. A., J. T. Mercer, N. E. O'Connell, K. A. Rance, Beattie, V. E., I. A. Sneddon   +15 more
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Strategies to manage tail biting in pigs housed in fully-slatted systems [PDF]

, 2020
EU Council Directive (2008/120/EC) prohibits the routine practice of tail docking to control tail biting in pigs, yet most pigs in Europe are still tail-docked.
Chou, Jen-Yun
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Talking tails : quantifying the development of tail biting in pigs [PDF]

, 2010
Tail biting is an adverse behaviour characterised by manipulation of a pig’s tail by another pig resulting in tail damage and a possible tail biting outbreak. Tail biting is a common problem in the pig husbandry causing economic losses and reduced animal
Zonderland, J.J.
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An epithelial GPR35 isoform supports tumor‐associated transcriptional and metabolic phenotypes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
GPR35 generates two functionally distinct isoforms with previously unresolved roles. GPR35‐short mediates immune‐cell chemotaxis, while GPR35‐long is enriched in colorectal cancer epithelium, where it supports increased metabolism, proliferation, and tumor‐associated transcriptional programs.
Jørgen D. Rønneberg, Martine Hjeltnes, Josephine Krieger, Joshua E. Elias, Maria Stensland, Kristian Holm, Xiaojun Jiang, Chuki Khangsar, Tuula A. Nyman, Arthur Kaser, Johannes R. Hov, Tom H. Karlsen, Nicole C. Kaneider, Frode L. Jahnsen, Georg Schneditz   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Approximate linear time ML decoding on tail-biting trellises in two rounds

, 2006
A linear time approximate maximum likelihood decoding algorithm on tail-biting trellises is presented, that requires exactly two rounds on the trellis.
K. Krishnan, Krishnan, Murali K, Priti Shankar, Shankar, Priti   +3 more
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