This study tests the effects of analgesia on piglets to see if it reduces pain and has any impact on growth performance. Two trials were carried out, the first was done on piglets, where some would receive analgesia before castration and some wouldn’t. Then the were tracked to see how they differed in mortality rate and average daily weight gain to weaning. The second trail involved giving the analgesia to the sow before and during farrowing and then stillbirths, growth rate to weaning and pre weaning mortality was recorded. For trial one there was no difference in ADG or mortality between the groups, and a subjective evaluation of the piglets pain during castration found no variation between groups. For the second trial there was no significant difference between groups for pre weaning mortality, number of piglets crushed, ADG or stillbirths. The use of analgesia increases the time of castration and has costs associated with purchasing the drugs. There was no difference found between pigs who were on the drugs and those that were not, the use of analgesia was found to have no benefit to producers.