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Teeth clipping in pigs is a management practice in which the sharp tips of newborn piglets' teeth are trimmed or filed to reduce the risk of injury to sows during nursing and minimize aggression-related injuries among piglets. Piglets are born with erupted teeth, in order to avoid sow teat injury and damage between piglets, some farms clip ...
[119] [120] Painful teeth clipping of piglets is also done to curtail cannibalism, behavioural instability and aggression, and tail biting, which are induced by the cramped environment. [121] [122] In English indoor farming, young pigs (less than 110kg in weight) are allowed to be kept with less than one square meter of space per pig. [123]
Examples include trimming the beaks of chickens, [31] and clipping the teeth and tails of piglets. [32] [33] Piglets are also frequently castrated to avoid a bad smell that can sometimes develop in the meat. Routine tail clipping is considered a traumatic practice for pigs and is banned in Europe, but the ban is often ignored in practice. [34]
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To my mind, your title of "Common Animal Mutilation Procedures" infers the primary reason for the procedure is to mutilate the animal. This is not always the case, for example, teeth-clipping piglets is done to reduce the injuries the piglets cause to each other and to the sows teats.DrChrissy 18:10, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
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