{"id":4692,"date":"2009-01-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/export.maxmaziy.php.nixsolutions.com\/?p=4692"},"modified":"2009-01-01T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T01:01:01","slug":"validation-of-saliva-sampling-techniques-in-swine-in-order-to-assess-stress-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/validation-of-saliva-sampling-techniques-in-swine-in-order-to-assess-stress-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"Validation of saliva sampling techniques in swine in order to assess stress responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salivary cortisol (a stress hormone) is an outcome measure that can be used<br \/>\nalong with health, behaviour, and productivity as an indication of what pigs are<br \/>\nexperiencing when exposed to various production methods. Saliva sampling<br \/>\nhas the potential to be a relatively non-invasive method of determining cortisol<br \/>\nconcentration, where pigs chew on cotton attached to a rod to collect the<br \/>\nsample. However, techniques have not yet been validated or standardized for<br \/>\nuse in grower-finisher pigs. The purpose of this study was to determine the<br \/>\neffect that different sampling regimens have on salivary cortisol concentration.  It was found that Group\/Interval sampling appears to be the least stressful<br \/>\nregimen for collecting saliva samples. With this knowledge, there will be<br \/>\nincreased confidence that salivary cortisol concentrations indicate a stress<br \/>\nresponse to the situation being tested (for example, the effect of crowding)<br \/>\nand not a response to the sampling procedure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salivary cortisol (a stress hormone) is an outcome measure that can be used along with health, behaviour, and productivity as an indication of what pigs are experiencing when exposed to various production methods. Saliva sampling has the potential to be a relatively non-invasive method of determining cortisol concentration, where pigs chew on cotton attached to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[8882,13816,19216,2558,1066,9130,1067,111,3465,14,33,16262,17743,27282,178,236,110,35,20911,4874,1579,4945,6053,11822],"class_list":["post-4692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","tag-al","tag-ass","tag-assess","tag-cortisol","tag-finisher","tag-finisher-pigs","tag-grower","tag-health","tag-pea","tag-pig","tag-pigs","tag-pl","tag-prod","tag-production","tag-saliva","tag-sampling","tag-stress","tag-swine","tag-t","tag-tan","tag-test","tag-testing","tag-use","tag-validation-of-saliva-sampling-techniques-in-swine-in-order-to-assess-stress-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692","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=4692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}