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25-09-2023 | Article

What is the connection between undocked tails, lesions and ulcers in pigs?

Keeping long tails is only possible when SINS is not found at farm level.

16-05-2022 | Article

Necrosis and long tails do not go well together

Pig Progress editor Vincent ter Beek in action at the Banff Pork Seminar 2022. - Photo: Marc Klumper

17-01-2022 | Expert opinion

An agricultural immigrant at Banff Pork Seminar (with video)

A pig with an intact tail. - Photo: Henk Riswick

19-04-2021 | News

Germany will evaluate anti-tail docking policy

Pig welfare is considered important in Finland. Providing straw can help prevent tail biting. Photo: Henk Riswick

11-03-2020 | Article

Pig production in Finland: unique climate and welfare

The pigs receive sawdust to make sure the pens stay dry. The straw is given as an extra safeguard against tail biting. Photo: Henk Riswick

06-12-2019 | Article

Curly tails, great health and 1kg daily growth

Ropes are chewable, destructible, somewhat edible. Photo: J-Y. Chou

27-11-2019 | Article

What to do when tail biting occurs?

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06-05-2019 | Expert opinion

How to combine pig welfare and making money?

An entire pig tail on a farm in the Netherlands. The tail docking issue is one of the more pressing issues in the EU swine business these days. Photo: Ronald Hissink

13-09-2018 | News

How to deal with pig tail docking and biting?

Brazil is moving closer to legislation demanding mandatory group housing for sows, like on this farm in Colombia.

14-08-2018 | News

Brazil about to move forward with pig welfare law