Sugar: Solution for pain control in piglets?

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, but can it also help to treat pain during, say, castration or tail-docking? Research at Canada’s Prairie Swine Centre was done to evaluate the outcomes. The piglets’ behavioural responses look particularly hopeful. Pain control is an important area for the global pork industry to address concerns over pig welfare and the ethics of performing painful husbandry procedures on piglets shortly after birth, such as castration or tail-docking. It is