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Learning goals

After working through this resource, employees in industry should be able to:

  • demonstrate the reasons why the majority of male pigs are castrated and describe the problems related to castration
  • suggest alternatives to surgical piglet castration
  • discuss animal welfare in relation to the castration of male piglets.

After working through this resource, students in higher education should be able to:

  • demonstrate the reasons why the majority of male piglets are castrated
  • explain the origin of boar taint
  • explain the methodology for and the problems related to surgical castration
  • describe the alternatives to surgical piglet castration
  • analyse the future methodology related to male pig production.