Physical and Physiological Responses to Animal Handling and Transport of Immunologically-Castrated Male Pigs (with IMPROVEST®), Gilts, and Physically-Castrated Males Fed Ractopamine
Published:November 30, 2012
Summary
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 d...