Animal Well-being
Modification of a standard dump trailer to meet requirements as a CO2 euthanasia device for market weight or adult swine
August 21, 2020By Brent Pepin
Animal Well-being
Automating Detection of Social Behavior Phenotypes and Improving Modeling of Indirect Genetic Effects to Breed for Less Aggression in Group-Housed Pigs
April 30, 2020By Dr. Juan Steibel Ph.D.
Animal Well-being
Mitigating the negative effects of in utero heat stress on piglet welfare following weaning and transport
February 27, 2020By Jay S. Johnson
Animal Well-being
Evaluation of the Transmammary Delivery of Firocoxib in Sows to Alleviate Pain Associated with Piglet Castration, Teeth Clipping, & Tail Docking
November 25, 2019By Dr. Johann Coetzee PhD
Animal Well-being
Towards an improved method of piglet castration to reduce pain: the use of one incision in combination with the use of Vapocoolant and Metacam™
July 29, 2019By Dr. Arlene Garcia
Animal Well-being
Providing humane on-farm handling tools to move non-ambulatory grow-finish pigs
May 1, 2019By Anna Johnson
Animal Well-being
The plasma and tissue pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in neonatal piglets.
March 4, 2019By Dr. Kristen Messenger
Animal Well-being
Determining the Topical and Oral Pharmacokinetics of Flunixin Meglumine in Pre-wean Piglets and Developing Tools for Drug Study in Pre-Wean Piglets
February 26, 2019By Dr. Locke Karriker DVM MS
Animal Well-being
A study to develop and validate assays to measure and compare four circulating neuropeptides as objective pain biomarkers in piglets
November 8, 2018By Dr. David J. Borts PhD
Animal Well-being
Development of an interactive training app for timely and humane on-farm euthanasia in pre-weaned piglets
July 16, 2018By Dr. Monique Pairis-Garcia Ph.D.
Euthanasia is a necessary act for any operation keeping live animals. However, science-based guidance for pig producers on proper on-farm decision criteria for euthanasia in piglets is deficient.