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Housing pigs with undocked tails: methods for the early detection and prevention of tail biting
(2025-04-15)The occurrence of tail biting is a widespread problem in global pig farming. Painful biting incidents lead to a significant impairment of animal health, animal welfare and the performance of pigs in various production ... -
Entwicklung eines innovativen, nachrüstbaren Moduls zur Luftkonditionierung zur Optimierung der Stallluftqualität in Schweineställen
(2022-11-04)When keeping livestock, an optimal stable climate is a basic prerequisite for ensuring animal welfare and thus also economic success. The temperatures and the relative humidity of the barn air should therefore be ... -
Behaviour and performance of growing and finishing pigs depending on different housing conditions and sire breeds
(2022-10-11)Conventional pig farmers and more particularly their pigs face many challenges throughout different production stages that can alter the welfare and health of the animals and impair the farmers economy and motivation ... -
Pig tail biting in different farrowing and rearing systems with a focus on tail lesions, tail losses and activity monitoring
(2020-07-22)Tail biting is a widespread behavioural disorder in modern pig housing systems. It is defined as an oral manipulation of a pig’s tail by another. Different types of tail biting are described throughout the literature which ...