animals Article Comparative Study of Pain-Related Responses of Male Piglets up to Seven Days of Age to the Application of Different Local Anaesthetics and Subsequent Castration Franz Josef Söbbeler 1, *,† , Sören…
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ation of male piglets is an important Abendschön, N.; Fischer, J.; Grott, A.; animal welfare issue. Bans on castration without pain relief are pending in most pork-producing Miller, R.; Zablotski, Y.; et al. European countries. Surgical castration of suckling piglets without anesthesia has been prohibited in Evaluation of Two Injection Germany since January 2021. Boar fattening, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) vaccination Techniques in Combination with the and surgical castration under isoflurane or injection anesthesia are permitted as legal alternatives. Local Anesthetics Lidocaine and These alternatives have advantages and disadvantages, and a feasible and simple method is still Mepivacaine for Piglets Undergoing needed. The legal basis for another alternative, i.e., the application of a local anesthetic by the farmer Surgical Castration. Animals 2022, 12, 1028. https://doi.org/10.3390/ prior to castration, has been created in Germany, but evidence of its efficacy remains controversial. The ani12081028 present study developed a feasible and effective method for local anesthesia in piglet castration. Two different injection techniques in combination with the local anesthetics lidocaine and mepivacaine Academic Editors: Peter White and were investigated using nociceptive parameters, injection pressure and tissue distribution. Both Dominique Van der Saag injection techniques significantly reduced the nociceptive parameters regardless of the local anesthetic Received: 21 March 2022 used and achieved similar distribution patterns and injection pressures. One method performed Accepted: 12 April 2022 slightly better in the experimental setup, based on injection duration and handling. Published: 14 April 2022 Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral Abstract: The
ation of male piglets is an important Abendschön, N.; Fischer, J.; Grott, A.; animal welfare issue. Bans on castration without pain relief are pending in most pork-producing Miller, R.; Zablotski, Y.; et al. European countries. Surgical castration of suckling piglets without anesthesia has been prohibited in Evaluation of Two Injection Germany since January 2021. Boar fattening, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) vaccination Techniques in Combination with the and surgical castration under isoflurane or injection anesthesia are permitted as legal alternatives. Local Anesthetics Lidocaine and These alternatives have advantages and disadvantages, and a feasible and simple method is still Mepivacaine for Piglets Undergoing needed. The legal basis for another alternative, i.e., the application of a local anesthetic by the farmer Surgical Castration. Animals 2022, 12, 1028. https://doi.org/10.3390/ prior to castration, has been created in Germany, but evidence of its efficacy remains controversial. The ani12081028 present study developed a feasible and effective method for local anesthesia in piglet castration. Two different injection techniques in combination with the local anesthetics lidocaine and mepivacaine Academic Editors: Peter White and were investigated using nociceptive parameters, injection pressure and tissue distribution. Both Dominique Van der Saag injection techniques significantly reduced the nociceptive parameters regardless of the local anesthetic Received: 21 March 2022 used and achieved similar distribution patterns and injection pressures. One method performed Accepted: 12 April 2022 slightly better in the experimental setup, based on injection duration and handling. Published: 14 April 2022 Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral Abstract: The
…10101752. The authors declare no competing interests. 18. Söbbeler FJ, Wendt S, Briese A, et al. Comparative study of Pain-Related responses of male piglets…
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
…10101752. The authors declare no competing interests. 18. Söbbeler FJ, Wendt S, Briese A, et al. Comparative study of Pain-Related responses of male piglets…
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