Anesthesia & Clinical Research
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-6148
+44 1223 790975
ISSN: 2155-6148
+44 1223 790975
B. Driessen
Belgium
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Painful Standard Management Practices with Piglets: Does Bundling and/or Anesthesia Improve Animal Welfare?
Author(s): S. Van Beirendonck, B. Driessen and R. GeersS. Van Beirendonck, B. Driessen and R. Geers
Newborn piglets are subjected to several painful management practices during their first week of life. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the bundling of these painful management practices as such and in combination with anesthesia influenced the behavior and/or production results of piglets positively compared to a random application. There were 515 piglets included in this study, which consisted of two experiments. In the first experiment, management practices were carried out spread over the first week (“separate” group, n = 168) or bundled at one week of age (“together1”, n = 144). In the second experiment management practices were all bundled at one week of age without anesthesia (“together2” group, n = 97), or bundled at one week of age while the piglets were anesthetized with 100% CO2 (“anesthesia” group, n = 1.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2155-6148.1000157