Page 6 of articles about castration

Using serum cortisol to distinguish between acute stress and pain response following castration in piglets

This study evaluated the difference between the levels of cortisol in the plasma of piglets under stress (simulated castration) or in pain (castration), under controlled conditions.

Home

News

USA - AVMA issues policy on swine castration, tail docking and teeth clipping

The American Veterinary Medical Association's (AVMA) Executive Board recently approved proposals to replace the AVMA policy on swine castration, tail docking, and teeth clipping with two new policies.

Home

Article

Piglet castration

At what age can we castrate piglets? Is it possible to castrate without a general anesthetic? The new test on castration tries to resolve these doubts.

Home

Article

Alternative to surgical castration without anesthesia (I)

The administration of local or general anesthesia, accompanied in all cases by a long-lasting analgesic, eliminates or considerably reduces the pain caused by surgical castration. However, the use of these products has certain limitations.

Home

Article

Alternative to surgical castration without anesthesia (II)

Immunological castration also reduces sexual behavior and aggressiveness during the final weeks of fattening, in this way increasing the time dedicated to the ingestion of food

Home

PorkAbstract

Impact of the non castration of male pigs on growth performance and behaviour − comparison with barrows and gilts

Growth performance, carcass quality, behaviour and general condition of crossbred (Pietrain x Large White) x (Large White x Landrace) boars, barrows and gilts were compared from a batch of pigs fed ad libitum and group‐housed both during the postweaning (eight‐nine pigs/pen) and the fattening (six pigs/pen) periods. Pigs were all slaughtered on the same day.

Home

Article

Surgical castration without anesthesia

Approximately 80% of the 120 million male pigs that are slaughtered every year in the European Union are castrated (EFSA, 2004).

Home

Press releases

JMAFF Approves Pfizer Animal Health’s IMPROVAC as Safe and Effective for Pigs in Japan

Pfizer Animal Health announced it will begin to expand Japanese veterinary experience with IMPROVAC, Pfizer’s successful pork production technology embraced by pig farmers in other countries for more than 10 years.

Home

Press releases

Metacam® receives EU approval for the relief of pain in castrated piglets

Boehringer Ingelheim’s Metacam® (active ingredient: Meloxicam) 5mg/ml solution for injection obtained EU wide marketing authorization for its use as an analgesic to relieve post operative pain associated with castration in piglets.

Home

News

European Union - The AVA makes a statement on castration of piglets using CO2 anaesthesia

The The Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists (AVA) position statement on castration of piglets using CO2 anaesthesia is now clear and can be summarised as follows: "with respect to animal welfare and the aim of alleviating pain during and after castration of piglets, carbon dioxide anaesthesia would not seem to be an appropriate or advisable technique".

Home

Article

Piglet Castration

Dr. Clement of the University of Louisiana and that is a little piglet on its back about to be castrated.

Home

NutritionAbstract

The effect of dietary fatty acid level on the fatty acid composition of the adipose and lean tissues of immunocastrated male pigs

A low dietary supply of PUFA and MUFA is enough to increase the degree of unsaturation of adipose tissue and intramuscular fat lipids in immunocastrated pigs

Home

NutritionAbstract

The effect of castration method and dietary raw potato starch supply on sensory quality of pork

The use of raw potato starch in the finishing diets may reduce boar taint perception in entire males, however boar taint it is not completely reduced