Standard operating procedures for the use of pigs in research and teaching
The Standard Operating Procedures below relate to a range of procedures involving pigs used in research and teaching.
- Artificial insemination
- Back fat measurement
- Branding
- Collection of blood
- Collection of faeces
- Collection of semen
- Condition of scoring
- Detusking of boars
- Ear notching of piglets
- Euthanasia
- Farrowing assistance per vagina
- Intramuscular injection
- Intravenous injection
- Oestrus detection by presence of a boar
- Oral Dosing
- Pregnancy testing - manually
- Pregnancy testing - ultrasound, adominal probe
- Restraint
- Subcutaneous injection
- Tail docking piglets
- Tattooing
- Teeth clipping