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Immunocastration of Male Pigs – Situation Today
- Source :
- Zamaratskaia, G & Rasmussen, M K 2015, ' Immunocastration of Male Pigs – Situation Today ', Procedia Food Science, vol. 5, pp. 324-327 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profoo.2015.09.064
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Immunological castration of male pigs is an attractive alternative to surgical castration and nowadays is increasingly used in many countries to reduce boar taint and improve pork quality. Moreover, immunocastrated pigs showed reduced sexual and aggressive behaviour compared to entire male pigs, thus improving animal welfare. Carcass and meat quality parameters generally do not differ between immunocastrated and surgically castrated male pigs. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
- Subjects :
- Veterinary medicine
Other Veterinary Science
Boar taint
Male pigs
Physiology
food and beverages
General Medicine
Biology
Entire male
immunological castration
meat quality
Surgical castration
Animal welfare
male pigs
Immunological castration
Other Biological Topics
Meat quality
reproductive system
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Zamaratskaia, G & Rasmussen, M K 2015, ' Immunocastration of Male Pigs – Situation Today ', Procedia Food Science, vol. 5, pp. 324-327 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profoo.2015.09.064
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....025b2bda21d1620aa35b95494cba5d0f
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profoo.2015.09.064