Irish pig farmer’s perceptions and experiences of tail and ear biting
Porcine Health Management, 2019 Abnormal behaviours such as ear and tail biting of pigs is of significant welfare and economic concern. Currently, pig welfare legislation is under renewed focus by the EU commission and is likely to be enforced more thoroughly. The legislation prohibits
Amy Haigh, Keelin O’Driscoll
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Update on Tail biting in pigs: An undesirable damaging behaviour
, 2021 Tail-biting is an abnormal behavior of multifactorial origin, that consists a major problem in modern pig industry. It has a serious impact on both welfare and health status of the pigs involved, as well as on economic profitability of the farm.
M. Kakanis +3 more
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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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A Rate-Compatible Sphere-Packing Analysis of Feedback Coding with Limited Retransmissions [PDF]
, 2012 Recent work by Polyanskiy et al. and Chen et al. has excited new interest in using feedback to approach capacity with low latency. Polyanskiy showed that feedback identifying the first symbol at which decoding is successful allows capacity to be ...
Chen, Tsung-Yi +2 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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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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Simple Rate-1/3 Convolutional and Tail-Biting Quantum Error-Correcting Codes
, 2005 Simple rate-1/3 single-error-correcting unrestricted and CSS-type quantum convolutional codes are constructed from classical self-orthogonal $\F_4$-linear and $\F_2$-linear convolutional codes, respectively.
Forney, Jr., G. David, Guha, Saikat
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MacWilliams Identities for Terminated Convolutional Codes [PDF]
, 2010 Shearer and McEliece [1977] showed that there is no MacWilliams identity for the free distance spectra of orthogonal linear convolutional codes. We show that on the other hand there does exist a MacWilliams identity between the generating functions of ...
Forney Jr, G. David
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Assessment of vector/host contact: comparison of animal-baited traps and UV-light/suction trap for collecting Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), vectors of Orbiviruses [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND The emergence and massive spread of bluetongue in Western Europe during 2006-2008 had disastrous consequences for sheep and cattle production and confirmed the ability of Palaearctic Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) to transmit the virus.
Allène, Xavier +10 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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