The prevalence of tail damage in slaughter pigs in Finland and associations to carcass condemnations

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica - Section A: Animal Science

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 213-219

  Valros, Anna ^a   Ahlström, Susanna ^a   Rintala, Hanna ^a   Häkkinen, Tanja ^a   Saloniemi, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Abnormal behaviour; Pigs; Tail biting

Indexed keywords

EID: 15744362307     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064700510009234     Document Type: Article

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