Background: Joint swelling and lameness are the most obvious and persistent clinical signs of infectious arthritis in piglets. For a positive treatment effect of piglets with arthritis, early initiated treatments with antibiotics are desired. Hitherto pain-reducing drugs have rarely been used within veterinary medicine, but the potential of non steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) are interesting from an animal welfare perspective. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the long term efficiency of treating lameness with and without pain relief. Further, the incidences of affected joints in lame piglets were analysed. Results: In total 415 of the 6,787 liveborn piglets included in the study were diagnosed with lameness (6.1 %)....
Background: Organic pig production is expanding and amongst the objectives of organic farming are ...
Lameness affects over 20% of commercial pigs in the UK and is a significant threat to the sustainabi...
Background: Organic pig production is expanding and amongst the objectives of organic farming are ...
Background: Joint swelling and lameness are the most obvious and persistent clinical signs of infect...
Background: Joint swelling and lameness are the most obvious and persistent clinical signs of infect...
Background: Joint swelling and lameness are the most obvious and persistent clinical signs of infect...
Background: Joint swelling and lameness are the most obvious and persistent clinical signs of infect...
Background: Joint swelling and lameness are the most obvious and persistent clinical signs of infect...
Lameness in suckling piglets is a major problem in farrowing enterprises. Apart from animal sufferin...
Lameness in suckling piglets is a major problem in farrowing enterprises. Apart from animal sufferin...
Lameness in suckling piglets is a major problem in farrowing enterprises. Apart from animal sufferin...
Lameness is a common health and welfare problem in sows. Little has been published about behavioral ...
Lameness is a common health and welfare problem in sows. Little has been published about behavioral ...
Lameness affects over 20% of commercial pigs in the UK and is a significant threat to the sustainabi...
Sow lameness is a s ignificant welfa re issue and has major econo mic impacts for the U.S. swine ind...
Background: Organic pig production is expanding and amongst the objectives of organic farming are ...
Lameness affects over 20% of commercial pigs in the UK and is a significant threat to the sustainabi...
Background: Organic pig production is expanding and amongst the objectives of organic farming are ...
Background: Joint swelling and lameness are the most obvious and persistent clinical signs of infect...
Background: Joint swelling and lameness are the most obvious and persistent clinical signs of infect...
Background: Joint swelling and lameness are the most obvious and persistent clinical signs of infect...
Background: Joint swelling and lameness are the most obvious and persistent clinical signs of infect...
Background: Joint swelling and lameness are the most obvious and persistent clinical signs of infect...
Lameness in suckling piglets is a major problem in farrowing enterprises. Apart from animal sufferin...
Lameness in suckling piglets is a major problem in farrowing enterprises. Apart from animal sufferin...
Lameness in suckling piglets is a major problem in farrowing enterprises. Apart from animal sufferin...
Lameness is a common health and welfare problem in sows. Little has been published about behavioral ...
Lameness is a common health and welfare problem in sows. Little has been published about behavioral ...
Lameness affects over 20% of commercial pigs in the UK and is a significant threat to the sustainabi...
Sow lameness is a s ignificant welfa re issue and has major econo mic impacts for the U.S. swine ind...
Background: Organic pig production is expanding and amongst the objectives of organic farming are ...
Lameness affects over 20% of commercial pigs in the UK and is a significant threat to the sustainabi...
Background: Organic pig production is expanding and amongst the objectives of organic farming are ...