Effects of multimodal pain management strategies on acute pain behavior and physiology in disbudded neonatal goat kids

Authors

  • Whitney A. Knauer Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108
  • Emily Barrell Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108
  • Alonso Guedes Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108
  • Beth Ventura Department of Animal Science, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro20197318

Keywords:

disbudding, pain relief, pain management, plasma biomarkers, goat kids

Abstract

Disbudding of goat kids is a common husbandry procedure in the dairy goat industry, typically carried out in the first week of life via a hot cautery iron without the application of pain relief. The objective of this study was to identify a practical, efficacious pain management strategy for disbudding by monitoring acute changes in behavior and plasma biomarkers in goat kids disbudded with varying combinations of pain relief.

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Published

2019-09-12

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AASRP Research Summaries