Are biters sick? Health status of tail biters in comparison to control pigs.

However, clinical hypoproteinemia (variable 159), although present in more than half of all pigs (36/60) failed to reach significance in the comparison of the two groups.

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However, it should not stay unmentioned that despite the findings that biters were in general lighter than the controls, the general characterisation as an animal as being clinically thin (variable 39) failed to reach statistical significance in this study, which raises the question whether the small deviations in Body Condition Score and weight are really of biological significance.

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