Analgesia of newborn lambs before castration and tail docking with rubber rings

Veterinary Record

Volumn 149, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 321-324

  Price, J ^a   Nolan, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; CARPROFEN; HAPTOGLOBIN; RUBBER; SUCROSE;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASTRATION; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LAMB; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; TAIL;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0035883757     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.149.11.321     Document Type: Article

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