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SUBMITTER: Henry M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8300120 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Henry Maggie M Jansen Hannah H Amezcua Maria Del Rocio MDR O'Sullivan Terri L TL Niel Lee L Shoveller Anna Kate AK Friendship Robert M RM
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20210705 7
Tail-biting is globally recognized as a welfare concern for commercial swine production. Substantial research has been undertaken to identify risk factors and intervention methods to decrease and understand this vice. Tail-biting appears to be multifactorial and has proven difficult to predict and control. The primary objective of the scoping review was to identify and chart all available literature on the risk factors and interventions associated with tail-biting in pigs. A secondary objective ...[more]