Does the presence of shoulder ulcers affect the behaviour of sows?

Larsen, Thea; Kaiser, Marianne; Herskin, Mette S.

doi:10.1016/j.rvsc.2014.11.001

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“…Other studies have observed more tail wagging, tail jamming, and bottom scooting (sitting, dragging bottom along the floor) in piglets following tail docking (67–69), and tail wagging associated with castration (70). In sows, shoulder rubbing has been associated with shoulder sores (73) and trembling, tail flicking, pulling the back leg forward, and pawing are putative pain indicators at parturition (45). Two studies showed no difference in “pain-related” behavior between individuals undergoing procedures and sham individuals for castration (71) and tail docking (72).…”

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“…Posture and posture changes have been measured before, during, and after painful events (64, 90), compared with controls/shams (68, 69, 73, 91–94), with and without anesthesia or analgesia (75, 76, 82, 95–98) and with the severity of painful conditions (99). …”

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“…The frequencies of posture changes and durations of postural behavior have been used in assessing pain in sows arising from farrowing (95–97, 99–101), the presence of shoulder ulcers (73), and lameness (82, 90, 98). Naloxone (an opioid antagonist) administration increased standing, lying ventrally, and postural changes in periparturient sows, indicating that endogenous opioids may have a role in reducing pain at farrowing, which is manifest by frequent posture changes (101).…”

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“…For sows given ketoprofen for 3 days post-farrowing, no overall treatment differences in posture were observed, but younger sows treated with ketoprofen had more body position changes (96). Sows with shoulder ulcers spent less time lying and standing still and exhibited more posture changes than healthy animals (73). …”

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“…Other behavioral alterations have been measured before and after painful events (64) and compared with control or sham animals (66, 70, 71, 73, 91–94, 103–105) from which analgesics were given or withheld (71, 72, 75–77, 79, 92, 103, 105, 106). Avoiding social contact with littermates has been recorded after tail docking (72) and castration (71, 93).…”

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There is a moral obligation to minimize pain in pigs used for human benefit. In livestock production, pigs experience pain caused by management procedures, e.g., castration and tail docking, injuries from fighting or poor housing conditions, “management diseases” like mastitis or streptococcal meningitis, and at parturition. Pigs used in biomedical research undergo procedures that are regarded as painful in humans, but do not receive similar levels of analgesia, and pet pigs also experience potentially painful conditions. In all contexts, accurate pain assessment is a prerequisite in (a) the estimation of the welfare consequences of noxious interventions and (b) the development of more effective pain mitigation strategies. This narrative review identifies the sources of pain in pigs, discusses the various assessment measures currently available, and proposes directions for future investigation.

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Hyper‐prolific sows frequently do not have a sufficient number of functional teats for their piglets to nurse which has led to the use of nurse sows to manage these surplus piglets. This review discusses strategies for using nurse sows and factors that influence preweaning survival and weight gain of their litters, as well as those that affect their subsequent rebreeding performance. Rearing piglets using a nurse sow can be as successful as piglets reared with their biological mother and is thus a powerful management tool to decrease preweaning piglet mortality. Selecting a young sow as nurse sow is beneficial for piglet survival; however, piglets nursing first parity sows often have a lower daily weight gain than piglets nursing multiparous sows. A litter of uniform surplus piglets is preferably handled using the two‐step nurse sow strategy. A consequence of nonuniform litters will most likely be an increased mortality and decreased weaning weight among the smallest piglets within a litter. The subsequent fertility of nurse sows is not compromised. There is an increased risk of lactational oestrus when using nurse sows leading to an increased weaning‐to‐oestrus interval; however, litter size in nurse sows is identical or even moderately higher in the subsequent parity compared with nonnurse sows.

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Does the presence of shoulder ulcers affect the behaviour of sows?

Cited by 29 publications

References 20 publications

A Review of Pain Assessment in Pigs

A Review of Pain Assessment in Pigs

Environmental Skin Diseases

Selecting the optimal strategies when using nurse sows for supernumerous piglets

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