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Preventing pain
Sucking pigs have an irrepressible desire to live. However, painful events may have a negative impact on the further development of pigs by:
- Lowering milk-intake
- Restricting self-preservation instinct (reflex to flee)
Common causes for pain during the first days of life:
- Castration
- Tail docking
- Wounds from fighting, as a result of agalactia
- Abrasions, skin lesions
- Bacterial arthritis