The Economic Implications of Phasing Out Pig Tail Docking: A Pilot Study in Italy

This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.

Francesca Menegon, Annalisa Scollo, Samuele Trestini, Rachele Urbani, Giuseppe Ru and Guido Di Martino share the results of their pilot study examining the phasing out of tail docking.

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Differences in Growth, Tail Injury, and Immune Markers among Tail-Biting, Non-Biting, and Control Pigs with Intact Tails

This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.

The Science Page for this week features a study done by Courtney Archer, Storey Forster Benny Mote, Ty Schmidt, Jon Anderson, Lee Johnston, and Yuzhi Li on tail-biting behavior.

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