Pain in the hours following surgical and rubber ring castration in dairy calves: Evidence from conditioned place avoidance

Male cattle reared for beef are typically castrated. Male calves born on dairy farms are increasingly reared for beef, so a better understanding of how to humanely perform this procedure in dairy systems is now required. We studied the short-term affective responses of dairy calves to castration usi...

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Main Authors: Thomas Ede, Emeline Nogues, Marina A.G. von Keyserlingk, Daniel M. Weary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-11-01
Series:JDS Communications
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666910222001181