Identifying Barriers to Implementing Pain Management for Piglet Castration: A Focus Group of Swine Veterinarians

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Surgical castration is a painful husbandry procedure typically performed on piglets in the United States (US) within the first week of life. Castration is used to improve meat quality, and as a result, nearly all male pigs destined for slaughter in the US will be castrated. In recent...

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Autores principales: Wagner, Brooklyn, Royal, Kenneth, Park, Rachel, Pairis-Garcia, Monique
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7401590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32679777
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10071202