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This website is providing information on the subject of surgical castration of male pigs. Many studies are, have to and will be executed and as many tools will be developed to be able to reach the goals. This website aims to bundle the knowledge and information available on the subject.

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Studying boar behaviour

Fattening boars leads to better yields for pig farmers. The other side of the coin is that boars’ more active behaviour can create challenges. Researcher Carola van der Peet-Schwering of Wageningen University and Research Centre has been studying boar behaviour for a number of years now. She examines influencing factors [...]

To consumers flavour is more important than smell

Various European Union countries are discussing stopping the castration of pigs. European researchers are exchanging information. In the Netherlands, Wageningen University and Research Centre has been studying this issue for five years now. According to Dr Gé Backus, the research’s project leader, possible side-effects are known as are their solutions. [...]

Breeding and preventing boar taint

In the Netherlands, researchers from Wageningen University and Research Centre are cataloguing the chromosomes related to the development of boar taint. The underlying idea is that targeted breeding can, over time, reduce the incidence of boar taint. The researchers think an up to 65% reduction is possible. A lot is already known [...]

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Myths about boar taint

Ge Backus: In the 1980s, the American Slovic conducted groundbreaking research into what people consider dangerous. One of the surprising results was that people are less afraid of skateboarding than they are of DNA technology. Even though we have been using DNA technology for thousands of years to domesticate agricultural [...]

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