Christopher Puls

Introduction: Improvest® (Zoetis, also known as Improvac) is an anti-GnRF vaccine for the immunological castration of male pigs for the control of boar taint. However, there is limited information on the impact of timing of 2nd Improvest dose relative to the time of harvest on growth and carcass parameters. The objective of this study was to compare different times of the 2nd on the performanc ...

Introduction Immunological castration of male pigs with Improvest® (Pfizer Animal Health) allows the production benefits of intact males to be exploited while eliminating the risk of producing pork with boar taint. One aspect that is likely to differ between physically- and immunologically-castrated males is behavior, particularly sexual and aggressive behavior; however, there has been little ...

Introduction Improvest® (Pfizer Animal Health) is approved in a number of countries for immunological castration of male pigs. There is an increasing amount of research evaluating the growth performance and carcass characteristics of immunologically- compared to physically-castrated male pigs. However, there has been little if any research comparing the responses of these two genders during p ...