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

Surgical castration is a painful husbandry procedure performed on piglets in the United States (US) to improve meat quality. Veterinarians play a crucial role in developing pain management protocols. However, providing pain management for castration is not common practice in US swine production syst...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brooklyn Wagner, Kenneth Royal, Rachel Park, Monique Pairis-Garcia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-07-01
Series:Animals
Subjects:
pig
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/10/7/1202