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  • Tail biting and straw usage in Swedish farms
  • Review: Early life predisposing factors for biting in pigs
  • Evidence of Pain, Stress, and Fear of Humans During Tail Docking and the Next Four Weeks in Piglets (Sus scrofa domesticus)
  • Physiology, Behaviour, Productivity and Meat Quality of Pigs Raised in a Hot Climate
  • Evidence for a link between tail biting and central monoamine metabolism in pigs (Sus scrofa domestica)
  • Rearing Pigs with Intact Tails—Experiences and Practical Solutions in Sweden
  • Tail docking in pigs is an amputation causing sustained transcriptomic expression changes in the spinal cord indicative of inflammation and neuropathic pain
  • PhD live stream: A tale of tails – prevention of tail biting in pigs by early detection and straw management. Torun Wallgren. Friday 20-9-2019, 09.15u, Sweden
  • Effect of intermittent draught on behaviour of weaned pigs
  • Did European pig-welfare legislation reduce pig welfare? Perhaps not, but experts confirm that common indestructible materials are not proper enrichment for pigs at all, except perhaps for an enhanced novel branched-chains design.
  • Dealing with tail biting in pigs with intact tails
  • Providing enrichment materials enhances play in sows around regrouping
  • Tail posture as an indicator of tail biting in undocked pigs
  • How to control injurious tail biting without tail docking of pigs
  • Prenatal stress and enrichment affect piglet behaviour
  • Tail posture predicts tail biting outbreaks in pigs
  • Herbs and enrichment may benefit pig welfare
  • 3D cameras can detect lowered tail posture before an outbreak of tail biting in pigs
  • Wood is a potentially suitable enrichment material for pigs
  • Enrichment may be joyful and reduce stress in young pigs
  • Tail biting causes acute phase response and inflammation in pig tails
  • Simple enrichment block may improve pig welfare
  • Toys and tail docking may reduce stress from mixing of pigs after weaning
  • Providing enrichment to alleviate pain due to castration and tail docking in pigs
  • Risk factors for tail lesions in weaner pigs
  • Early indicators of tail biting in pigs
  • Effect of straw on behaviour, lesions and pen hygiene in undocked pigs
  • Optical flow to monitor tail biting outbreaks in pigs.
  • Webcast Rearing pigs with intact tails -Expert meeting November 27-28, 2018 Grange
  • Tail posture as a detector of tail damage and an early detector of tail biting in finishing pigs
  • An animal‐based screening method for sufficient amount of straw to fulfil the need for exploration and manipulation
  • What can carcass-based assessments tell us about the lifetime welfare status of pigs?
  • Early intervention with enrichment can prevent tail biting outbreaks in weaner pigs
  • Tail amputation causes acute and sustained changes in peripheral somatosensory nerve function involving inflammatory and neuropathic pain pathways
  • GroupHouseNet: webstream updates on beak trimming and tail docking

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