GroupHouseNet: four years of EU-wide collaboration on tail docking solutions
In 2016, the EU programme, COST, funded an initiative to collaborate across Europe with the aim of reducing damaging behaviour in group housed pigs and poultry. The resulting COST Action, “GroupHouseNet”, has worked over the last four years to reach that aim.
14 April 2020
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The “+” indicates the factor is increasing biting, “0” indicates no effect, and “–” a decrease in biting. A “?” indicates that there is not enough information available (less than 5 published studies). Figure from Prunier et al. (2020) Animal, 14(3), 570-587. © Prunier et al. (2020)
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| Prunier, A., Averos, X., Dimitrov, I., Edwards, S. A., Hillmann, E., Holinger, M., ... & Camerlink, I. | ||||
| (2020) | Early life predisposing factors for biting in pigs.. Animal | 14(3), 570-587 |
Irene Camerlink
PhD and post-doc researcher
Irene Camerlink is a researcher at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna (Vetmeduni) where she works on social behaviour in pigs and its relationship to neurobiology and animal welfare.
