Pain in the hours following surgical and rubber ring castration in dairy calves: Evidence from conditioned place avoidance
Male cattle reared for beef are typically castrated.Male calves born on dairy farms are increasingly reared for beef, so a better understanding of how to humanely perform this procedure in dairy systems is now required.We studied the short-term affective responses of dairy calves to castration using a conditioned place aversion paradigm.Young Holst