Castration of male piglets in the United States is conducted without analgesics because no
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved products are labeled for pain control in …

To accurately assess pain and support broadly-based analgesic protocols to mitigate swine
pain, it is imperative to develop and validate a species-specific pain scale. The objective of …

Simple Summary Castration and disbudding, common husbandry procedures used in cattle
livestock production industries, are recognized as being painful. In the United States (US) …

Pain is a perceptional phenomenon built from information gathered by specialised sensory
receptors for tissue damage, modified by ascending and descending spinal and supraspinal …

This study presents a sensitive and reproducible mass spectrometry method for quantifying
skatole in porcine adipose tissue, muscle, and serum samples applicable for abattoirs and …

Monitoring behaviour during transport is challenging due to the design of vehicles and often
limited deck height. The aim of the present study was to validate behavioural sampling …

Efficient sampling strategies expedite behavioral data collection. While multiple studies have
evaluated sampling strategies for core behaviors in cattle, few have focused on social …

In an effort to mitigate piglet acute responses to surgical castration, the procedure can be
preceded by injections of a local anaesthetic. Regardless of potential benefits at castration …

There are efficient sampling methods to accurately estimate behaviour with a moderate or
long duration. For short behaviour, observing animals continuously is recommended …

Castration is a painful procedure routinely performed on piglets. Specific periods relative to
castration and time sampling rules are used widely to quantify deviations in piglet's behavior …