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Euthanasia is a practice in pig production that has welfare and economic impact. It is essential to understand when euthanasia should be carried out and that it is done properly to limit suffering of the pig. Early weaning of compromised piglets has both welfare and economic benefits. When a pigs birth weight is\u00a0less than 0.9kgs it will rarely turn into profit for the producer so euthanasia will limit feed and maintenance costs and improves overall herd welfare. For pigs under twelve pounds there are three acceptable euthanasia methods, blunt force trauma, overdose on anesthesia and CO2 poisoning. Blunt force trauma is the most common method and fairly simple to carry out, but aesthetically it is not the most ideal method. An alternative to BFT is a non-penetrating captive bolt\u00a0which has been\u00a0deamed\u00a0acceptable for suckling pigs. Co2 poisoning involves\u00a0exposing a pig to greater than 90%\u00a0CO2 for\u00a0five minutes. Although this method is effective at causing death, it can appear inhumane as pigs squeal while being gassed, try to escape, and\u00a0have high cortisone levels which suggests the pig has\u00a0suffered\u00a0increased stress.\u00a0When choosing a euthanasia\u00a0procedure producers\u00a0should have clear guidelines about which piglets should be euthanized as well as how the procedure is carried out. To assess sensibility the pigs should be tested\u00a0immediatly after the euthanasia. If the pig still\u00a0has a brain or spinal reflex it\u00a0is still considered sensible and\u00a0the euthanasia attempt must be repeated. If physical contact is not possible\u00a0behavior tests can be\u00a0done by obseving\u00a0absence of breathing, lack of muscle tone and\u00a0abasence of vocalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Euthanasia is a practice in pig production that has welfare and economic impact. It is essential to understand when euthanasia should be carried out and that it is done properly to limit suffering of the pig. Early weaning of compromised piglets has both welfare and economic benefits. When a pigs birth weight is\u00a0less than 0.9kgs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14948],"tags":[21235,2096,18355,19216,18297,18294,18173,18296,65,4605,21577,21352,350,6784,583,18180,19644,4663,18447,22833,2480,23833,18328,46,20007,17697,18185,16295,3465,18179,14,1635,126,89,33,27282,8214,18568,20911,18495,22831,24717,18181,77,1301,27281,21351],"class_list":["post-13127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-swine-innovation-pork-insight-articles","tag-acceptable-euthanasia-methods-for-swine-in-canada","tag-alternative","tag-approved-practices-of-pig-euthanasia","tag-assess","tag-assess-the-effectiveness-of","tag-assessing-the-effectiveness-of-euthanasia-methods","tag-assessing-the-effectiveness-of-euthanasia-methods-for-suckling-piglets-using-signs-of-sensibility-and-behavioural-indicators","tag-assessing-the-effectiveness-ofeuthanasia-methods-for-sucklingpiglets-using-signs-of","tag-behavior","tag-birth-weight","tag-blunt-force-trauma","tag-captive-bolt","tag-co2","tag-cos","tag-costs","tag-csrdc-swine-innovation-porc","tag-dd","tag-don","tag-effectiveness-of-euthanasia","tag-effectiveness-on-euthanasia","tag-euthanasia","tag-euthanasia-methods-effective","tag-euthanizing-swine-with-co2","tag-feed","tag-gh","tag-lacombe-pig-breeders","tag-low-birth-weight-piglet","tag-new-energy-and-amino-acid-requirements-for-gestating-sows","tag-pea","tag-phase-feeding-pregnant-sows","tag-pig","tag-pig-production","tag-piglet","tag-piglets","tag-pigs","tag-production","tag-suckling-pig","tag-swine-euthanasia","tag-t","tag-the-effectiveness-of-euthanasia","tag-the-effectiveness-of-euthanasia-measures","tag-thionyl-chloride","tag-towards-intergration-nutritional-management-of-growing-finishing-pigs","tag-weaning","tag-weight","tag-welfare","tag-widowski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13130,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions\/13130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}