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Tail biting in pigs: A comprehensive guide to its aetiology, impact and wider significance in pig management

Keelin O'Driscoll, Anna Valros
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 sep 2024
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issue of tail biting in pigs, one of the most significant welfare and economic problems in the pig industry. With contributions from renowned experts in their fields, it is an essential resource for both scientists, and industry stakeholders. Key topics include the evolutionary roots of the disorder, internal and external risk factors, methods that can be used to address the issue, including human behavioural change, and the wider economic, and ethical considerations. Finally, evidence is provided as to how an intact tail can be used as an ice-berg indicator for overall pig welfare.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004691346
ISBN-10: 9004691340
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 1.07 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill | Wageningen Academic

Notă biografică

Keelin O'Driscoll (Ph.D., 2007) is a Senior Research Officer in Teagasc, the Irish Agricultural Development Authority. Her research focuses on improving commercial pig welfare, and she has investigated strategies to reduce the need to tail dock for 10 years.

Anna Valros (Ph.D., 2003) is Professor of Animal Welfare at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki. Pig welfare is her main research area, and she has worked on tail biting related topics for over 20 years.

Cuprins

Lists of 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
Peter Stephenson

2 Anatomy and physiology of the pig tail: characterisation of tail biting injury and consequences
Dale Sandercock, Mette Herskin and Heli Nordgren

3 Why does tail biting occur? An evolutionary perspective
Rick D’Eath and Marc Bracke

4 Individual pig-related factors
Laurianne Canario and Catherine Larzul

5 Poor health and the brain: how the immune system can influence neurophysiology and behaviour, and how this relates to damaging behaviour in pigs
Hege Lund and Janicke Nordgreen

6 The social environment
Inonge Reimert and Nanda Ursinus

7 The physical environment
Keelin O’Driscoll, Melissa Cupido and Jen-Yun Chou

8 Environmental enrichment
Stephanie Buijs, Jen-Yun Chou and Heleen van de Weerd

9 Feeds and feeding
Sandra Edwards

10 Risk assessment
Sabine Dippel

11 The evidence of tail biting: where, when and how to measure tail lesions
Anna Valros and Laura Boyle

12 Changing stakeholder behaviour
Grace Carroll, Alison Burrell, and Lisa Graham-Wisener

13 Precision livestock farming
Mona Lilian Vestbjerg Larsen, Lene Juul Pedersen and Tomas Norton

14 The tail as an iceberg indicator: interrelationships with welfare problems
Manja Zupan Šemrov and Antonia Patt

15 The economic and legal aspects of tail biting and tail docking
Jarkko K. Niemi and Peter Stevenson

16 The ethical aspects of tail biting and tail docking
Berenice Bovenkerk, Marc Bracke and Anna Valros

Conclusion