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Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Oral presentation Open Access Animal Welfare Aspects of Preventing Boar Taint Mette Giersing*, Jan Ladewig and Björn Forkman Address: Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark * Corresponding author from Prevention of Boar Taint in Pig Production: The 19th Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation Gardermoen, Norway. 21–22 November 2005 Published: 7 August 2006 <supplement> <title> <p>Prevention of Boar Taint in Pig Production: The 19th Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation</p> </title> <note>Meeting abstracts</note> <url>http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/files/pdf/1751-0147-48-S1-full.pdf</url> </supplement> Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2006, 48(Suppl 1):S3 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-48-S1-S3 © 2006 Giersing et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Introduction Surgical castration Since boar taint is connected to testicular hormones and Surgical castration without anaesthesia is painful, as sexual maturity, surgical castration has for centuries been shown by the acute physiological responses (increased the method employed to prevent taint in meat from male Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal-responses and protein c- pigs, as well as to obtain more docile pigs. However, since fos expression in spinal neurons), as well as by vocalisa- the castration is performed without anaesthesia, it is pain- tion and behaviour during and immediately after the ful for the pig and therefore poses a serious welfare prob- operation. The frequency and duration of high-frequency lem. With growing focus on animal welfare in animal calls points towards the extraction of the testes and the production, surgical castration without anaesthesia and severing of the spermatic cords as

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Oral presentation Open Access Animal Welfare Aspects of Preventing Boar Taint Mette Giersing*, Jan Ladewig and Björn Forkman Address: Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark * Corresponding author from Prevention of Boar Taint in Pig Production: The 19th Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation Gardermoen, Norway. 21–22 November 2005 Published: 7 August 2006 <supplement> <title> <p>Prevention of Boar Taint in Pig Production: The 19th Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation</p> </title> <note>Meeting abstracts</note> <url>http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/files/pdf/1751-0147-48-S1-full.pdf</url> </supplement> Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2006, 48(Suppl 1):S3 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-48-S1-S3 © 2006 Giersing et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Introduction Surgical castration Since boar taint is connected to testicular hormones and Surgical castration without anaesthesia is painful, as sexual maturity, surgical castration has for centuries been shown by the acute physiological responses (increased the method employed to prevent taint in meat from male Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal-responses and protein c- pigs, as well as to obtain more docile pigs. However, since fos expression in spinal neurons), as well as by vocalisa- the castration is performed without anaesthesia, it is pain- tion and behaviour during and immediately after the ful for the pig and therefore poses a serious welfare prob- operation. The frequency and duration of high-frequency lem. With growing focus on animal welfare in animal calls points towards the extraction of the testes and the production, surgical castration without anaesthesia and severing of the spermatic cords as

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