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.

Cover image of the 52nd Conference Proceedings: A photo of a herd of cattle shot from below. A black and white cow is looking curiously at the phototgrapher. Yellow

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Published

2019-09-12

Issue

2019

Section

AASRP Research Summaries