Tail biters: often gilts, lower ADG and lighter final weight

Tail biters are predominantly gilts, tail biters exhibit lower average daily gain (ADG) and lighter final weights, and tail biters are less frequently tail-bitten than non-biters. Those observations were made by a team of US-based researchers from the University of Minnesota and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, analysing their trial. They published about it in the Journal of Animal Science in May 2025 and presented about their trial during the meeting of the American Society for Animal Sci