Calf aversion to hot-iron disbudding
Abstract
Dairy calves are routinely disbudded by cauterization with a hot iron. To mitigate the intra-operative and initial post-operative pain associated with this procedure some farmers provide calves general and local anesthetics, but it is unknown if the procedure remains aversive. We used a place-conditioning paradigm to assess aversion caused by hot-iron cautery with a local anesthetic compared to a sham procedure. A test area was divided into...
Paper Details
Title
Calf aversion to hot-iron disbudding
Published Date
Mar 29, 2019
Journal
Volume
9
Issue
1
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