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Managing undocked pigs – on-farm prevention of tail biting and attitudes towards tail biting and docking
BACKGROUND: Tail biting is a common and serious welfare problem in pig production, causing large economical losses. Tail docking is performed routinely in most EU countries to reduce the tail biting risk. However, tail docking is painful, and does not prevent tail biting totally. The risk factors be...
Autores principales: | Valros, Anna, Munsterhjelm, Camilla, Hänninen, Laura, Kauppinen, Tiina, Heinonen, Mari |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5382372/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28405428 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40813-016-0020-7 |
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