…lambs; tail docking; pain response; wound infection; cortisol; serum amyloid A 1. Introduction Amputation of the tail in livestock or tail docking, is a routine husbandry procedure in sheep production worldwide for…
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…Lambs Keywords analgesia; castration; lambs; pain; tail docking; topical were divided into eight treatment groups to examine surgical castra- anaesthesia; welfare tion plus surgical or hot-iron (HI) tail docking, (performed without…
…Surgical tail-docking without GA but where wounds are immediately sprayed with TS is an affordable and welfare appropriate method of conducting tail docking in lambs, avoiding the unnecessary use of antibiotics…
…SC concentration did not change significantly over time in cohorts tail-docked under GA (B & D), but peaked at 30 min post tail removing without anaesthesia (A & C), and treatment with TS…
…hot-iron sensitivity testing was repeated. (HI) tail docking and in January 2009 (Trial 2; n = 42) on lambs undergoing mulesing only (previously tail docked). The mean initial Body weights body weight…