cost of analgesia in piglets
The cost of analgesia was $0.22 per piglet and it did increase the time to castrate. The farrowing trial showed no differences between stillbirth rate, weaning weights or pre-weaning mortality between treated and control animals. The cost of Ketoprofen was 13.05/sow/dose.These preliminary data indicate no economic benefit from providing analgesia to sows at farrowing or to piglets at castration. Further analysis or further studies might show benefits to using analgesia where a small sow is delivering large piglets.iglets were castrated 30 minutes after receiving the injection, and observations were made 10 minutes after castration for signs of discomfort. Piglets were weighed at 21 days of age, and mortality was recorded. In the sow study, sows were randomly assigned to a control group or a treatment group.