Physiological indicators of stress and meat and carcass characteristics in tail bitten slaughter pigs

BACKGROUND: Tail biting is a common welfare problem in pig production and in addition to being a sign of underlying welfare problems, tail biting reduces welfare in itself. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of tail biting on different pre and post mortem indicators of stress in slaug...

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Autores principales: Valros, Anna, Munsterhjelm, Camilla, Puolanne, Eero, Ruusunen, Marita, Heinonen, Mari, Peltoniemi, Olli A T, Pösö, A Reeta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24172255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-55-75

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24172255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-55-75

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