Effect of knife castration on leukocyte cytokine expression and indicators of stress, pain, and inflammation in Korean cattle bull calves [PDF]
Animal Bioscience, 2023 Objective This study investigated the effects of surgical castration on behavior, physiological and inflammatory indicators, and leukocyte cytokine mRNA levels in Korean cattle bull calves. Methods Nineteen Korean cattle bull calves (average body weight,
Seonpil Yoo +9 more
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Surgical Castration Changes Struggle Behavior and Vocalizations in Male Piglets
, 2021 This study assessed acute pain in piglets during castration through behavioral indicators. Piglets (n=88) were randomly allocated to one of two treatments: surgical castration and sham-castration.
Maria Lou (17248345) +3 more
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Recent advances in immunocastration in sheep and goat and its animal welfare benefits: A review
Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2022 Castration of male animals is a common practice in the meat industry aimed at reducing aggressive behavior, preventing unpleasant flavor, and controlling undesirable breeding.
Fan-mei ZENG +6 more
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Consumers’ awareness of piglet castration and attitudes towards alternatives to surgical castration: results from North Macedonia [PDF]
, 2022 One of the most challenging welfare problem in pig production is surgical castration of male piglets without the use of anesthesia and analgesia. Farmers in North Macedonia are traditionally castrated their male piglets surgically unanesthetized in the ...
Hristov, Slavca +4 more
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Offering surgical castration to detainee sex-offenders: The ‘unkindest cut’ [PDF]
, 2020 The still available in some jurisdictions offer of surgical castration to sex-offenders raises ethical concerns. The narrow castration law in Texas has found supporters since it does not mandate castration, instead reserving it for repeat offenders who ...
Voultsos, Polychronis
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Legal aspects of surgical castration
, 2010 The use of surgical castration, whilst still legal in some European countries is now being practised only on a very small scale. This is largely due to the fact that many people have objections to the practice of surgically castrating offenders ...
Harrison, Karen
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Topical anaesthesia reduces sensitivity of castration wounds in neonatal piglets. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The aim of this study was to do determine the efficacy of the topical anaesthetic Tri-Solfen® in the amelioration of the pain of castration in piglets.
Sabrina Lomax +3 more
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Animals, 2020 Australian sheep routinely undergo painful surgical husbandry procedures without anaesthesia or analgesia. Electroencephalography (EEG) has been shown to be a successful measure of pain in livestock under a general anaesthetic.
Charissa Harris +3 more
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International Journal of Veterinary Science and Medicine, 2018 The objective of this study was to determine the effect of local anesthesia and the number of incisions performed on the physiological blood profile of piglets after surgical castration. A total of 60 male piglets were divided into five groups of 12 each,
Efraín Pérez-Pedraza +9 more
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Comparative Analysis of Oxidative Stress Induced by Chemical and Surgical Castration in Male Dogs [PDF]
Veterinary and Comparative Biomedical ResearchThis study was conducted to investigate the effects of chemical and surgical castration on oxidative stress in male dogs. A total of ten healthy male dogs, aged between 1 and 3 years, were assigned to two distinct groups: Group Surg underwent surgical ...
Dorrin Azari Motlagh +4 more
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