ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2020
Identifying Barriers to Implementing Pain Management for Piglet Castration: A Focus Group of Swine Veterinarians.
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- Animal welfare and sustainability in pork production: a pilot study of farmer and veterinarian perspectives in North America.Porcine health management · 2026Article
- Efficacy of intranasal non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on pain responses in castrated and tail-docked piglets.Porcine health management · 2026Article
- When Pain Outlasts Our Drugs: The Case for Sustained-Release Analgesia in Sheep.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- PRRS management by European swine veterinarians: a descriptive insight into practices and profiles.Porcine health management · 2025Article
- Impact of observation duration on behavioural pain assessment and intra-observer reliability in castrated piglets: A pilot study.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2025Article
- Efficacy and Safety of Lidocam Topical Gel (4% Lidocaine-0.3% Meloxicam) for Pain and Inflammation Management during Castration and Tail Docking in Piglets.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Simplified assessment of castration-induced pain in pigs using lower complexity algorithms.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Efficacy of inguinal buffered lidocaine and intranasal flunixin meglumine on mitigating physiological and behavioral responses to pain in castrated piglets.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Validation of the Unesp-Botucatu pig composite acute pain scale (UPAPS) in piglets undergoing castration.PloS one · 2023Article
- Efficacy of transdermal flunixin in mitigating castration pain in piglets.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Technical contribution: use of continuous recording video monitoring of maintenance and pain behaviors in piglets after surgical castration to validate six continuous time sampling periods for behavior scoring.Journal of animal science · 2021Article
- Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs: Pharmacokinetics and Mitigation of Procedural-Pain in Cattle.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Producer and Veterinarian Perspectives towards Pain Management Practices in the US Cattle Industry.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
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Abstract
Surgical castration is a painful husbandry procedure performed on piglets in the United States (US) to improve meat quality. Veterinarians play a crucial role in developing pain management protocols. However, providing pain management for castration is not common practice in US swine production systems. Therefore, the objective of the present study is to identify factors influencing swine veterinarian decision-making in regard to pain management protocols for piglet castration using focus group methodologies. Swine veterinarians (n = 21) were recruited to participate in one of three focus groups. Audio recordings were transcribed verbatim and analyzed by two independent coders who identified three areas of focus, including (1) the lack of approved products validated for efficacy, (2) economic limitations and challenges, and (3) deficient guidelines and training for veterinarians to develop protocols. Although participating veterinarians acknowledged the importance of pain management from an animal welfare standpoint, these barriers must be addressed to ensure that castration pain can be successfully mitigated on-farm.
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