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, vol. 72, No 2, p. 175-182. ISSN 0001-7213.
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Original name The Effect of Milk Sucking from the Dam or Glucose Administration on the Behavioural Responses to Tail Docking in Lambs
Authors LANDA, Leoš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor).
Edition Acta Veterinaria Brno, 2003, 0001-7213.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 30104 Pharmacology and pharmacy
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 0.336
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14110/03:00008808
Organization unit Faculty of Medicine
UT WoS 000184215400005
Keywords in English tail docking; rubber rings; lamb; suckling; pain; analgesia
Tags analgesia, lamb, pain, rubber rings, suckling, tail docking
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: doc. Mgr. MVDr. Leoš Landa, Ph.D., učo 70449. Changed: 30/11/2006 13:23.
Abstract
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.
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