Tail Biting in Pigs : : A Comprehensive Guide to Its Aetiology, Impact and Wider Significance in Pig Management.
Tail biting is one of the most serious and devastating problems in pig production, and both results from, and causes, animal welfare deficiencies. This book provides a thorough overview of its causes, risk factors, and considers economic and ethical implications.
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Wageningen Academic Publishers,, 2024. ©2024. |
Year of Publication: | 2024 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (443 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Introduction
- 1 The legal prohibition on routine tail docking and the long road to achieving compliance: Compassion in World Farming: tail docking of pigs - where are we, and how did we get here
- 2 Anatomy and physiology of the pig tail: characterisation of tail biting injury and consequences
- 3 Why does tail biting occur? An evolutionary perspective
- PART 1 Risk factors associated with individual pigs and the social environment
- 4 Individual pig-related factors
- 5 Poor health and the brain: how the immune system can influence neurophysiology and behaviour, and how this relates to damaging behaviour in pigs
- 6 The social environment
- PART 2 Risk factors associated with the physical environment
- 7 The physical environment
- 8 Environmental enrichment
- 9 Feeds and feeding
- PART 3 Methods of addressing the problem
- 10 Risk assessment
- 11 The evidence of tail biting: where, when and how to measure tail lesions
- 12 Changing stakeholder behaviour
- 13 Precision livestock farming
- PART 4 The bigger picture
- 14 The tail as an iceberg indicator: interrelationships with welfare problems
- 15 The economic and legal aspects of tail biting and tail docking
- 16 The ethical aspects of tail biting and tail docking
- Conclusion
- Back Cover.