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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 ...
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)
Docking is the intentional removal of part of an animal's tail or, sometimes, ears.The term cropping is more commonly used in reference to the cropping of ears, while docking more commonly—but not exclusively—refers to the tail; the term tailing is used, also.
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[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]
Humane Long Island played the clip outside a Town of Brookhaven council meeting this week. It shows the lumbering animal slowly managing to turn herself around as the water hits her.