Using serum cortisol to distinguish between acute stress and pain response following castration in piglets
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In the United States swine industry, castration is essentially universal and only a select number of male pigs are left intact as potential breeder boars. Pain and distress inflicted by castration is an animal well-being concern in livestock production. Castration in pigs has been shown to cause a stressful and painful response. The need for a robust, repeatable pysiological indicator of pain for use in the assessment of production practices designed to minimize these impacts has been recognized.
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This is a proceeding from Hensch, M., L. L. Layman, L. A. Karriker, J. Coetzee, and A. K. Johnson. 2010. Using serum cortisol to distinguish between acute stress and pain response following castration in piglets. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, Omaha, Nebraska, pp 37-39. Posted with permission.