The Effect of Milk Sucking from the Dam or Glucose Administration on the Behavioural Responses to Tail Docking in Lambs

LANDA, Leoš. The Effect of Milk Sucking from the Dam or Glucose Administration on the Behavioural Responses to Tail Docking in Lambs. Acta Veterinaria Brno. 2003, roč. 72, č. 2, s. 175-182. ISSN 0001-7213.

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Effect of Milk Sucking from the Dam or Glucose Administration on the Behavioural Responses to Tail Docking in Lambs

Autoři

LANDA, Leoš (203 Česká republika, garant)

Vydání

Acta Veterinaria Brno, 2003, 0001-7213

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

30104 Pharmacology and pharmacy

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 0.336

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14110/03:00008808

Organizační jednotka

Lékařská fakulta

UT WoS

000184215400005

Klíčová slova anglicky

tail docking; rubber rings; lamb; suckling; pain; analgesia

Štítky

analgesia, lamb, pain, rubber rings, suckling, tail docking

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

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Anotace

V originále

The aim of this study was to find out if natural suckling of milk or administration of glucose prior to rubber ring tail docking could decrease painful responses to the procedure. The first result of this study was that rubber ring tail docking elicits pain in lambs of age less than 24 hours, which has not been published yet. In the naturally suckled group (Experiment 1), suckling did not produce any significant decrease in the behavioural responses to tail docking. No significant differences in responses were observed in the group given glucose (Experiment 2) when measured over the thirty minute period after the treatment. However, in this experiment when behavioural responses were analysed for the three ten-minute periods after treatment a significant reduction of abnormal lying was found during the first ten-minute interval in the group given glucose (p = 0.03). In this group, non-significant decreases in the incidence of head turning and overall limb activity score also occurred. This suggests that there was at least some small effect of glucose intake on the behavioural responses to the rubber ring tail docking.