Welcome to the AHDB Pork Tail Biting WebHAT
The Tail Biting “WebHAT” (Web based Husbandry Advisory Tool) is a website designed to be an interactive resource providing information about the key risks for tail biting in pigs and practical suggestions to help reduce these risks on-farm.
Taking information from evidence based sources and scientific literature, this WebHAT identifies a number of risks associated with tail biting (a key pig behaviour), and can be used to generate a report of prioritised, key tail-biting risks found on a farm and obtain suggestions to address the specific risks identified
Identifying Early Signs of Tail Biting
Information on the early warning signs of tail biting to assess if there are risks of a tail biting outbreak developing on your farm
Risk Factors of Tail Biting
Browse the risk factors related to tail biting, read suggestions to prevent and reduce these, and build a risk report for specific to your farm
Recording Tail Biting
Information on how recording can be used as a tool to help identify likely causes and risks of tail biting
Information Sources
Information on the development of the WebHAT, identification of these risks, and further reading