Surgical castration does not play a major role in Portugal, Spain, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands because the production of boars is common [8,9]. Common anesthetic approaches for surgical…
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Surgical castration does not play a major role in Portugal, Spain, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands because the production of boars is common [8,9]. Common anesthetic approaches for surgical…
mers have been raising entire males in the UK and Ireland. Castration was also abandoned in Spain and Portugal for mainstream standard pig production, while it is still performed in the high…
mers have been raising entire males in the UK and Ireland. Castration was also abandoned in Spain and Portugal for mainstream standard pig production, while it is still performed in the high…
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
…3Teagasc, Pig Development Department, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co Cork, Ireland. Received: 12 April 2017 Accepted: 7 July 2017 References 1. Bonneau M. Use of entire males for pig meat in the European Union…
…3Teagasc, Pig Development Department, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co Cork, Ireland. Received: 12 April 2017 Accepted: 7 July 2017 References 1. Bonneau M. Use of entire males for pig meat in the European Union…
…3Teagasc, Pig Development Department, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co Cork, Ireland. Received: 12 April 2017 Accepted: 7 July 2017 References 1. Bonneau M. Use of entire males for pig meat in the European Union…
…3Teagasc, Pig Development Department, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co Cork, Ireland. Received: 12 April 2017 Accepted: 7 July 2017 References 1. Bonneau M. Use of entire males for pig meat in the European Union…
…The exceptions are Ireland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain, where 20% or less of the male pigs are castrated [5]. According to EU Directive 2008/120/EC, better practices…