Evaluation of carcass quality, body and pulmonary lesions detected at the abattoir in heavy pigs subjected or not to tail docking

Table 4 Effect of tail caudectomy and season on indices and prevalence of lung lesions and pleuritis

Item	Tail		SE	Season		SE	P value
Item	Docked	Undocked	SE	Warm	Cold	SE	Tail	Season	Km abattoir
N batches*	128	19		70	77
Madec	0.89	0.90	0.13	0.89	0.89	0.12	0.989	0.956	0.372
EP lung lesions (%)	28.00	26.64	2.45	25.70	28.80	2.28	0.742	0.221	0.689
SPES	0.79	0.83	0.07	0.82	0.80	0.06	0.703	0.794	0.142
Pleurisy, %	36.20	40.10	2.72	38.30	37.90	2.53	0.356	0.878	0.139
APP index	0.66	0.66	0.07	0.68	0.65	0.06	0.964	0.646	0.120
Dorso-caudal pleurisy (score > 2), %	23.40	22.90	2.22	23.30	22.90	2.06	0.885	0.839	0.091

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