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animals Article Exploratory Survey on European Consumer and Stakeholder Attitudes towards Alternatives for Surgical Castration of Piglets Marijke Aluwé 1, *, Evert Heyrman 1 , João M. Almeida 2 , Jakub Babol 3 , Gianni Battacone 4 , Jaroslav Čítek 5 , Maria Font i Furnols 6 , Andriy Getya 7 , Danijel Karolyi 8 , Eliza Kostyra 9 , Kevin Kress 10 , Goran Kušec 11 , Daniel Mörlein 12 , Anastasia Semenova 13 , Martin Škrlep 14 , Todor Stoyanchev 15 , Igor Tomašević 16 , Liliana Tudoreanu 17 , Maren Van Son 18 , Sylwia Żakowska-Biemans 9 , Galia Zamaratskaia 19 , Alice Van den Broeke 1 and Macarena Egea 20 1 Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Animal Sciences Unit, 9090 Melle, Belgium; evert.heyrman@ilvo.vlaanderen.be (E.H.); alice.vandenbroeke@ilvo.vlaanderen.be (A.V.d.B.) 2 Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária (INIAV), Quinta da Fonte Boa, 2005-048 Vale de Santarém, Portugal; joaoalmeida@iniav.pt 3 Department of Biomedical Science and Veterinary Public Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7015, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden; jakub.babol@slu.se 4 Department of Agriculture, University of Sassari, Viale Italia 39, 07100 Sassari, Italy; battacon@uniss.it 5 Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU), Kamycka 129, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic; citek@af.czu.cz 6 Institute for Food and Agriculture Research and Technology (IRTA), Product Quality Program, Finca Camps i Armet, 17121 Monells, Girona, Spain; maria.font@irta.cat 7 Animal Breeding Department, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NULES), Henerala Rodimtseva 19, 03041 Kyiv, Ukraine; getya@ukr.net 8 Department of Animal

animals Article Exploratory Survey on European Consumer and Stakeholder Attitudes towards Alternatives for Surgical Castration of Piglets Marijke Aluwé 1, *, Evert Heyrman 1 , João M. Almeida 2 , Jakub Babol 3 , Gianni Battacone 4 , Jaroslav Čítek 5 , Maria Font i Furnols 6 , Andriy Getya 7 , Danijel Karolyi 8 , Eliza Kostyra 9 , Kevin Kress 10 , Goran Kušec 11 , Daniel Mörlein 12 , Anastasia Semenova 13 , Martin Škrlep 14 , Todor Stoyanchev 15 , Igor Tomašević 16 , Liliana Tudoreanu 17 , Maren Van Son 18 , Sylwia Żakowska-Biemans 9 , Galia Zamaratskaia 19 , Alice Van den Broeke 1 and Macarena Egea 20 1 Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Animal Sciences Unit, 9090 Melle, Belgium; evert.heyrman@ilvo.vlaanderen.be (E.H.); alice.vandenbroeke@ilvo.vlaanderen.be (A.V.d.B.) 2 Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária (INIAV), Quinta da Fonte Boa, 2005-048 Vale de Santarém, Portugal; joaoalmeida@iniav.pt 3 Department of Biomedical Science and Veterinary Public Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7015, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden; jakub.babol@slu.se 4 Department of Agriculture, University of Sassari, Viale Italia 39, 07100 Sassari, Italy; battacon@uniss.it 5 Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU), Kamycka 129, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic; citek@af.czu.cz 6 Institute for Food and Agriculture Research and Technology (IRTA), Product Quality Program, Finca Camps i Armet, 17121 Monells, Girona, Spain; maria.font@irta.cat 7 Animal Breeding Department, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NULES), Henerala Rodimtseva 19, 03041 Kyiv, Ukraine; getya@ukr.net 8 Department of Animal

animals Article Behavior of Piglets in an Observation Arena before and after Surgical Castration with Local Anesthesia Regina Miller 1, *, Andrea Grott 1 , Dorian Patzkéwitsch 1 , Dorothea Döring 1 , Nora Abendschön 2 , Pauline Deffner 2 , Judith Reiser 3 , Mathias Ritzmann 2 , Anna M. Saller 3 , Paul Schmidt 4 , Steffanie Senf 2 , Julia Werner 3 , Christine Baumgartner 3 , Susanne Zöls 2 , Michael Erhard 1 and Shana Bergmann 1, * 1 Department of Veterinary Science, Chair of Animal Welfare, Ethology, Animal Hygiene and Animal Husbandry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany 2 Clinic for Swine, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany 3 Center for Preclinical Research, Technical University of Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany 4 Statistical Consulting for Science and Research, Große Seestr. 8, 13086 Berlin, Germany * Correspondence: r.miller@tierhyg.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de (R.M.); s.bergmann@lmu.de (S.B.) Simple Summary: Surgical castration of piglets is generally recognized as a painful procedure. Thus, for animal welfare reasons, the German Animal Welfare Act stipulates the use of effective anesthesia during castration. However, whether local anesthesia provides adequate analgesia has been an ongoing debate in Germany. In the present study, we compared the behavior of 178 piglets allocated to various test groups in an observation arena before any of the applied procedures, after administration of the local anesthetic, and 0, 2 and 24 h after surgical castration. The local anesthetic and the injection techniques were evaluated and optimized in three sequential study parts. Overall, the results revealed that when local anesthesia was used, piglets less frequently showed

animals Article Behavior of Piglets in an Observation Arena before and after Surgical Castration with Local Anesthesia Regina Miller 1, *, Andrea Grott 1 , Dorian Patzkéwitsch 1 , Dorothea Döring 1 , Nora Abendschön 2 , Pauline Deffner 2 , Judith Reiser 3 , Mathias Ritzmann 2 , Anna M. Saller 3 , Paul Schmidt 4 , Steffanie Senf 2 , Julia Werner 3 , Christine Baumgartner 3 , Susanne Zöls 2 , Michael Erhard 1 and Shana Bergmann 1, * 1 Department of Veterinary Science, Chair of Animal Welfare, Ethology, Animal Hygiene and Animal Husbandry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany 2 Clinic for Swine, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany 3 Center for Preclinical Research, Technical University of Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany 4 Statistical Consulting for Science and Research, Große Seestr. 8, 13086 Berlin, Germany * Correspondence: r.miller@tierhyg.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de (R.M.); s.bergmann@lmu.de (S.B.) Simple Summary: Surgical castration of piglets is generally recognized as a painful procedure. Thus, for animal welfare reasons, the German Animal Welfare Act stipulates the use of effective anesthesia during castration. However, whether local anesthesia provides adequate analgesia has been an ongoing debate in Germany. In the present study, we compared the behavior of 178 piglets allocated to various test groups in an observation arena before any of the applied procedures, after administration of the local anesthetic, and 0, 2 and 24 h after surgical castration. The local anesthetic and the injection techniques were evaluated and optimized in three sequential study parts. Overall, the results revealed that when local anesthesia was used, piglets less frequently showed