FareWellDock factsheets on tail docking, enrichment, health and the prediction of tail biting. See also our cover factsheet, and our posts by country (UK, DK, NL, FI, FR, IT, NO, SE).
Tail docking
Factsheet 1 Tail docking English (pdf)
Factsheet 1 Danish (pdf)
Factsheet 1 Dutch (pdf)
Factsheet 1 Finnish (pdf)
Factsheet 1 French (pdf)
Factsheet 1 Italian (pdf)
Factsheet 1 Norwegian
Factsheet 1 Swedish (pdf)
Enrichment
Factsheet 2 Enrichment English (pdf)
Factsheet 2 Danish (pdf)
Factsheet 2 Dutch (pdf)
Factsheet 2 Finnish (pdf)
Factsheet 2 French (pdf)
Factsheet 2 Italian (pdf)
Factsheet 2 Norwegian (pdf)
Factsheet 2 Swedish (pdf)
Health
Factsheet 3 Health English (pdf)
Factsheet 3 Danish (pdf)
Factsheet 3 Dutch (pdf)
Factsheet 3 Finnish (pdf)
Factsheet 3 French (pdf)
Factsheet 3 Italian (pdf)
Factsheet 3 Norwegian (pdf)
Factsheet 3 Swedish (pdf)
Prediction of tail biting
Factsheet 4 Prediction English (pdf)
Factsheet 4 Danish (pdf)
Factsheet 4 Dutch (pdf)
Factsheet 4 Finnish (pdf)
Factsheet 4 French (pdf)
Factsheet 4 Italian (pdf)
Factsheet 4 Norwegian (pdf)
Factsheet 4 Swedish (pdf)
Note: The cover factsheets can be found here.
Some more links (see also :
* Factsheet ‘Tail biting in pigs‘, Farm Animal Education Centre, February 2014, The Farm Animal Welfare Fact Sheet No. 8.
* Zonderland, J. 2013. Tail biting in pigs – Guidance for New Zealand pig producers. New Zealand Pork.
* Pig Husbandry Advisory Tool (WebHAT) (Taylor et al., 2009), provides support to assess risk factors for tail biting and design strategies to solve the problem (UK research project).
Telkänranta, H. Research results on pig enrichment – The research project “New innovations for environmental enrichment on pig farms (in English, Swedisch and Finnish). University of Helsinki, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
