การตัดฟันเขี้ยว: the law by country

National Farm Animal Care Council Code of Practice: an industry code, not a statute. NFACC says Code requirements are not explicitly binding in most provinces but can be evidence of distress. Referred to in provincial law: adopted in NL (NLR 36/12; NLR 35/12 s.15 makes a practice a code prohibits a prohibited one), prescribed in SK (Reg 1 s.3-4), named as a defence in NB (Reg 2000-4 s.4(2), Sch A) and BC (B.C. Reg. 34/2019, as generally accepted practice), accepted in NS (Act s.28(b)). The need must be evaluated; only when deemed necessary.

Grinding or clipping the teeth of suckling piglets without anaesthesia, by a qualified person. Text read on a legal publisher's copy of Act 246/1992 Sb. (last amended 1 April 2025), not the official collection.

Teeth may be cut only by a veterinarian (or supervised veterinary student) or under an animal ethics committee procedure, except a pig's needle teeth at 4 days of age or under and a boar's tusks. Tusks must be cut with obstetrical wire or a dental saw.

Filing corner teeth uniformly, not older than 7 days, where injuries are found and measures failed.

Clipping or grinding piglets' teeth is prohibited except for veterinary reasons; preventive clipping is no longer allowed.

Grinding eye teeth without anaesthesia only for piglets under 8 days, if essential to protect the sow or littermates.

Teeth trimming and tusk trimming may be done by a knowledgeable individual.

Uniform reduction of corner teeth at 7 days or under, by grinding or clipping, after measures against vices and where injury is still evidenced.

Lay person: up to 7 days, uniform reduction of corner teeth, after other measures and with injuries still occurring.

Farmed piglets at 7 days or less, by grinding or clipping, on evidence of injury after other measures.

At 7 days or under; uniform reduction of corner teeth, after other measures, on evidence of injury.

Clipping piglets' teeth only for the benefit of the health and welfare of other pigs. The agency page cites no section numbers; the statute itself could not be opened (Riigi Teataja needs a script-enabled browser), so check the current wording.

Non-routine, under 8 days, grinding or clipping leaving a smooth surface, on evidence of injury and after a vet's opinion.