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Practice on castration of piglets in Europe
Animal, 2009 PIGCAS (Attitudes, practices and state of the art regarding piglet castration in Europe) is to our knowledge the first project that has focused on castration practice across European countries (European Union minus Bulgaria, Malta and Romania, plus ...
B. Fredriksen +6 more
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Immunocastration of young and mature boars with Improvac®
, 2014 The aim of the study: To evaluate the impact of immunocastration by commercial product Improvac® on young and adults, sexually matured boars. The purpose of the study: 1.
Bilskis, Ronaldas
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Effect of immunocastration on body lesions in heavy pigs: preliminary results
, 2022 Immunocastration is an interesting alternative to surgical castration in piglets. Studies have shown promising results in terms of production performance (e.g., maintaining adequate meat quality) also in heavy pig production; and improvement of animal ...
Berteselli G +8 more
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Immunocastration of boars in Slovenian conditions
, 2010 Four groups of pigs: boars (B), gilts (G), surgical castrates (SC) and immunocastrates (IC) were tested in groups with 24 animals between ages 80 and 167 days.
Kastelic, Miran, Košorok, Stane
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, 2019 Immunocastration is a sustainable alternative to piglet castration but faces limited market acceptance. The phenomenon of non-responders has not to date been examined in detail, but adverse and stressful housing conditions (e.g., mixing of groups) might ...
Kevin Kress +17 more
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Early immunocastration of male pigs [PDF]
, 2011 The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of prepubertal or early pubertal vaccination against GnRH using Improvac® (Pfizer Ltd.) on boar taint, reproductive organs, anabolic hormones, cytochrome P450 enzymes, performance and behaviour. Crossbred male pigs (n=192) were randomly allocated to four groups: one group surgically castrated without
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The Effect of Immunocastration on Some Meat Quality Characteristics
Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023 Surgical castration of male pigs has become increasingly less accepted at present due to the fact that it is a direct animal welfare concern. UE welfare conditions demand that this method be dropped starting 2018 in order to eliminate the stress and associated pain it induces.
Ioana Andronie +3 more
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Immunocastration in Fattening Pigs and its Effects on Productive Performance
, 2016 According to the European and national legislation which set the minimum standards for pig protection, the castration of piglets after the age of seven days must be performed only under prolonged anesthesia and analgesia.
Ioana Andronie
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Immunocastration Inmunocastración Imunocastração
Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Pecuarias, 2011 Immunocastration (IC) of pigs during their finishing phase avoids the traumatic castration surgery (Q) still practiced in many countries to prevent boar taint in pork. We have not found reports on IC evaluated on culled adult boars.
Jorge H Agudelo Trujillo +2 more
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, 2012 Kastracija je postupak koji se primjenjuje na muškim životinjama s ciljem ostva¬rivanja boljeg prirasta tijekom razdoblja tova te mogućnosti kontrole ponašanja ži¬votinja.
Margeta, Vladimir +5 more
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