Tail biting
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What are the consequences of tail biting?
- Wounds, infections
- Culling of pigs, carcass rejection
- Lower growth rate in victims
- Restlessness and stress
What differences in intensity of tail biting are there?
- Tail-in-mouth behavior
- Severe biting and cannibalism
What differences are there in type of tail biting?
- Two-stage tail biting
- Sudden-forceful tail biting
- Obsessive tail biting
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In what stages of pug life does tail biting take place?
- In farrowing pen
- After weaning
- In growing-finishing period
What are the risk factors for tail biting?
- Little enrichment
- Nutrition
- Nr. of feeding places
- Feed restriction (satiety?)
- Nutritional balance? - Space
- Floor
- Climate
- Health
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