Effects of multimodal pain management strategies on acute physiological and behavioral response to cautery disbudding in neonatal goat kids
ABSTRACT: Dairy goat kids are commonly disbudded in the United States without pain relief. Our objective was to identify an efficient pain management strategy by monitoring changes in plasma biomarkers and behavior of disbudded goat kids. A total of 42 kids (5–18 d old at the time of disbudding) wer...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-04-01
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Series: | Journal of Dairy Science |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030223000851 |