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Mutilations

11 page report from 1999.
Describes how tail-biting can be prevented by management improvements.
23 page report from 1994.
Details the methods used and the pain and other welfare problems caused by tail-docking, castration and teeth-clipping of pigs, de-beaking of hens and turkeys, toe-cutting of turkeys, tail-docking and castration of lambs, and castration, de-horning/disbudding of cattle and calves.

 

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