Pain management is becoming easier and cheaper, and pays dividends in animal performance and welfare.
You wouldn’t want to have surgery without something to manage the pain, and the livestock industry has realized that animals should have the same consideration.
“The industry identified pain management in livestock as an issue that it wanted to address,” says Dr. Robert Tremblay, DVM, a bovine specialist with Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health. “As tools were developed to measure pain, research began to look for ways to manage that pain. Animal health companies followed and began making treatments available for use in livestock management. And producers and veterinarians began to see the positive impacts of managing pain in their herds.”
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