Abstract

Immunological castration of male pigs is an attractive alternative to surgical castration and nowadays is increasingly used in many countries to reduce boar taint and improve pork quality. Moreover, immunocastrated pigs showed reduced sexual and aggressive behaviour compared to entire male pigs, thus improving animal welfare. Carcass and meat quality parameters generally do not differ between immunocastrated and surgically castrated male pigs. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.

Keywords

male pigs; reproductive system; immunological castration; meat quality

Published in

Procedia Food Science
2015, volume: 5, pages: 324–327
Publisher: Elsevier

Conference

58th International Meat Industry Conference (MeatCon)

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