Also industry promotes calling veterinarians to pain medicate calves prior the dusbudding procedure. During ongoing animal welfare law renewal process one has discussed for prohibiting disbudding in ...

OAD feeding can significantly help this process of weaning and it can also help considerably with the workload at this time ...

Calf disbudding is carried out, with animals kept conscious in purpose-built restraint crates. The process uses local ...

Below are some of our research themes related to pain and sickness behaviours Disbudding pain Around 300 000 calves born yearly in Finland and most of them are disbudded (ie their hornbuds are ...