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Author:   Keelin O'Driscoll ,  Anna Valros
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   1.070kg
ISBN:  

9789004691346

ISBN 10:   9004691340
Pages:   430
Publication Date:   19 September 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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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.

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