Poor health as a risk factor for tail biting

In several episodes, leading welfare researchers explain the results they obtained within the international framework ‘FareWellDock’. This project investigates how to steer away from tail docking. Norwegian and Finnish researchers dived into the topic of health and tail biting – are these phenomena interrelated? Tail biting is detrimental to animal welfare and has a negative impact on producer economy. We know that tail biting is a multifactorial problem with nutrition, feeding routines,