…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…
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ratory for Research on Heavy Metals Accumulation in the Food Chain and Modeling, Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and University of Agronomic Sciences, 011464 Bucharest, Romania; liliana_tudoreanu223@hotmail.co.uk 18 Norsvin SA, Storhamargata 44, 2317 Hamar, Norway; maren.van.son@norsvin.no 19 Department of Molecular Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7015, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden; Galia.zamaratskaia@slu.se 20 Department of Food Science and Technology, Veterinary Faculty, University of Murcia, 30071 Espinardo Murcia, Spain; macarena.egea@um.es * Correspondence: marijke.aluwe@ilvo.vlaanderen.be Animals 2020, 10, 1758; doi:10.3390/ani10101758 www.mdpi.com/journal/animals Animals 2020, 10, 1758 2 of 25 Received: 14 August 2020; Accepted: 16 September 2020; Published: 28 September 2020 Simple Summary: In many countries, surgical castration of piglets without pain relief or anaesthesia is still common practice. Castration is performed to minimise the incidence of boar taint, a bad taste (urine/fecal like), typically present in the meat of 5 to 10% of uncastrated male pigs. It also helps to avoid aggressive and sexual behaviour. For animal welfare reasons, alternatives are being considered, and in some countries, an alternative is already practiced. One option is to perform surgical castration with anaesthesia and relieve pain. A second option is to produce male pigs without castration, which requires detection of tainted carcasses in the slaughter house. A third option is to apply immunocastration: by a two-fold injection of a vaccine, the testes function is inhibited, which reduces boar-like behaviour and avoids boar taint. In this study, we evaluated the acceptability of each of these methods in 16 countries in Europe. Of the 4
…An additional 10, non-painful female pig- Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, lets were included to account for the effect of natural behavioral variation by day on pain PORTUGAL scale results…
…Nora.Abendschoen@med.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de Received: 27 August 2020; Accepted: 24 September 2020; Published: 26 September 2020 Simple Summary: More than 80 million male piglets are castrated every year within…
…Evaluation des différentes méthodes de 29. Leidig MS, Hertrampf B, Failing K, et al. Pain and discomfort in male piglets prise en charge de la douleur lors de la castration. 2018. h…
…Department, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón-IA2 (Universidad de Zaragoza- CITA), Veterinary Faculty of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain 2 Anatomy, Embryology and Animal Genetics Department, CIBER CV (Universidad de Zaragoza-IIS), (Universidad de Zaragoza…
…Nora.Abendschoen@med.vetmed.uni-muenchen.de Received: 27 August 2020; Accepted: 24 September 2020; Published: 26 September 2020 Simple Summary: More than 80 million male piglets are castrated every year within…
…An additional 10, non-painful female pig- Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, lets were included to account for the effect of natural behavioral variation by day on pain PORTUGAL scale results…
…Erhard 3 , Mathias Ritzmann 2 , Susanne Zöls 2 and Christine Baumgartner 1, * 1 Center of Preclinical Research, Technical University of Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany; julia.werner@tum.de (J.W.); anna.saller…
…Erhard 3 , Mathias Ritzmann 2 , Susanne Zöls 2 and Christine Baumgartner 1, * 1 Center of Preclinical Research, Technical University of Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany; julia.werner@tum.de (J.W.); anna.saller…