TY - JOUR
T1 - Decision support system with semantic model to assess the risk of tail biting in pigs. 2. 'Validation'
AU - Bracke, M.B.M.
AU - Keeling, L.
AU - Blokhuis, H.J.
AU - Hulsegge, B.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Tail biting is a multifactorial problem with important welfare as well as economic consequences. Different stakeholders in the pig production chain, such as farmers, consumers and policy makers are interested in the level of tail biting, because tail biting may affect productivity, profit and animal welfare. To help assess the extent to which a housing system is at risk with respect to tail biting we constructed a computer-based decision support system called PIGTAIL. For ‘validation’ the model was run on 50 treatments, i.e. ‘housing systems’ described in 12 scientific papers. Of 77 pairwise comparisons of these ‘housing systems’ 63 comparisons were in accordance with PIGTAIL’s predictions (sign test, P
AB - Tail biting is a multifactorial problem with important welfare as well as economic consequences. Different stakeholders in the pig production chain, such as farmers, consumers and policy makers are interested in the level of tail biting, because tail biting may affect productivity, profit and animal welfare. To help assess the extent to which a housing system is at risk with respect to tail biting we constructed a computer-based decision support system called PIGTAIL. For ‘validation’ the model was run on 50 treatments, i.e. ‘housing systems’ described in 12 scientific papers. Of 77 pairwise comparisons of these ‘housing systems’ 63 comparisons were in accordance with PIGTAIL’s predictions (sign test, P
KW - environmental enrichment
KW - growing pigs
KW - behavior
U2 - 10.1016/j.applanim.2003.12.006
DO - 10.1016/j.applanim.2003.12.006
M3 - Article
SN - 0168-1591
VL - 87
SP - 45
EP - 54
JO - Applied Animal Behaviour Science
JF - Applied Animal Behaviour Science
IS - 1-2
ER -