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Pork Checkoff Research

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Animal Well-being
Development and validation of a research protocol to assess the efficacy of interventions intended to mitigate pain associated with surgical castration in neonatal piglets

The objective of this study was to establish a research protocol to reliably evaluate efficacy of pain mitigation interventions in nursing male piglets during castration.

Animal Well-being
Identifying barriers and implementing solutions to practical on-farm pain management during castration
Animal Well-being
Automated computer vision system for tracking individual pig activity and locomotion in nursery/finisher group housing
Animal Well-being
Evaluation of Sodium Nitrite for mass euthanasia of commercial pigs
Pork Quality
New Insights on Cellular Events and Gene products to Predict Pork Quality
Animal Well-being
Validation of scan sampling techniques for pain behaviors in castrated piglets
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
Swine Health - PRRS
Role of the viral ovarian domain protease in PRRSV pathogenesis
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