Reducing/adjusting painful management practices in piglets: an attempt to improve animal welfare and zootechnical results KU Leuven
In the pig industry, farmers always strive for optimal productions results. In order to obtain these results, they carry out several managementpractices on piglets like tail docking (to avoid tail biting; routinelyprohibited), teeth shortening (to avoid wounding to the udder of the sow or to litter mates; routinely prohibited), castration of male piglets (to avoid boar taint), All these procedures are however considered to be painful and ...