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
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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
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alysed, inter‑ 10. O’Connor A, Anthony R, Bergamasco L, Coetzee JF, Dzikamunhenga RS, preted, revised; KD revised, MM revised, JR drafted, revised, IE analysed, inter‑ Johnson AK, et al. Review: assessment of completeness of reporting in preted, revised, IHP revised, NK revised, LK revised, MW revised, SK analysed, intervention studies using livestock: an example from pain mitigation interpreted, revised, EGB designed, drafted, analysed, interpreted and revised. interventions in neonatal piglets. Animal. 2016;10(4):660–70. https:// doi.org/10.1017/S1751731115002323. Funding 11. Contiero B, Cozzi G, Karpf L, Gottardo F. Pain in pig production: text Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This work is mining analysis of the scientific literature. J Agric Environ Ethics. financially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture 2019;32(3):401–12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-019-09781-4. (BMEL) based on a decision of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of 12. Ison SH, Clutton RE, Di Giminiani P, Rutherford KM. A review of pain Germany, granted by the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE; grant assessment in pigs. Front Vet Sci. 2016;3:108. https://doi.org/10.3389/ number 28N-2–008-01 "CARE-PIG"). fvets.2016.00108. 13. Hewson CJ, Dohoo IR, Lemke KA, Barkema HW. Canadian veterinarians’ Data availability use of analgesics in cattle, pigs, and horses in 2004 and 2005. Can Vet J. No datasets were generated or analysed during the current study. 2007;48(2):155–64. https://doi.org/10.4141/cjas68-021. 14. Council directive No 98/58/EC (CD) of 20 July 1998. Protection of animals kept for farming purposes., (14.12.2019). Declarations 15.
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anish Policy for Animal Protection RD53/2013, meeting countries, and where available, existing live-attenuated or the European Union Directive 2010/63 on the protection of scab-based vaccines may revert to virulence and are not animals used for experimental and other scientific fully protective. This could be due to genetic deletions purposes. present in attenuated vaccines, that may significantly reduce their immunogenicity and efficacy, and genetic Animals heterogeneity of field strains.7–9 One-month-old lambs (n=14) with similar weights and The treatment of this disorder involves standard naturally infected with orf were recruited from a farm hygiene practices and in numerous cases, management of where a natural outbreak of orf disease was occurring. presumptive secondary infections, usually with antibiotic The 1800 Lacaune sheep farm was located in a small treatments.2 As reducing antibiotic use in livestock has village of the Pyrenees mountains. Due to high prolificacy become a priority for the management of antimicrobial (2.2), some lambs were routinely artificially fed milk by an resistance (AMR) risk, there is a need for treatment pro artificial lactation machine. These lambs were kept in tocols that provide more effective topical treatment of orf a separate pen with proper cleaning and disinfection con cases. Recent studies have confirmed the efficacy of the ditions, although the farmers reported the lambs frequently wound therapy formulation Tri-Solfen® (TS) (Animal had recurrent orf infections. The lambs selected for the Ethics Pty Ltd, Australia) for reducing pain and hastening experiment were in the early stages of orf infection when healing of skin and mucosal lesions in sheep and cattle. lesions were initially diagnosed. The lambs were co- The