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Temple D, Escribano D, Jiménez M, et al. Effect of the needle-free "intra dermal application of liquids" vaccination on the welfare of pregnant sows. Porcine Health Manag. 2017;3:9doi: 10.1186/s40813-017-0056-3.
Temple, D., Escribano, D., Jiménez, M., Mainau, E., Cerón, J. J., & Manteca, X. (2017). Effect of the needle-free "intra dermal application of liquids" vaccination on the welfare of pregnant sows. Porcine health management, 39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40813-017-0056-3
Temple, Déborah, et al. "Effect of the needle-free "intra dermal application of liquids" vaccination on the welfare of pregnant sows." Porcine health management vol. 3 (2017): 9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40813-017-0056-3
Temple D, Escribano D, Jiménez M, Mainau E, Cerón JJ, Manteca X. Effect of the needle-free "intra dermal application of liquids" vaccination on the welfare of pregnant sows. Porcine Health Manag. 2017 Apr 04;3:9. doi: 10.1186/s40813-017-0056-3. eCollection 2017. PMID: 28405465; PMCID: PMC5382458.
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Porcine Health Manag. 2017 Apr 04;3:9. doi: 10.1186/s40813-017-0056-3. eCollection 2017.

Effect of the needle-free "intra dermal application of liquids" vaccination on the welfare of pregnant sows.

Porcine health management

Déborah Temple, Damián Escribano, Marta Jiménez, Eva Mainau, José J Cerón, Xavier Manteca

Affiliations

  1. School of Veterinary Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
  2. School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.
  3. MSD Animal Health, 37008 Carbajosa de la Sagrada, Salamanca Spain.

PMID: 28405465 PMCID: PMC5382458 DOI: 10.1186/s40813-017-0056-3

Abstract

BACKGROUND: In commercial pig production, sows are often vaccinated several times per gestation period, resulting in reduced welfare. This preliminary experiment investigated whether the needle-free IDAL vaccinator improves welfare through reduction of stress markers, improvement of behavioural and health parameters compared to traditional needle-syringe method.

RESULTS: Two treatments (IDAL and NEEDLE) in 6 replicate pens of gestating sows (15 sows per pen) were evaluated using Porcilis® PRRS. The frequency of sows exhibiting an acute fear (or pain) response at the time of injection was significantly lower in the IDAL sows for the four indicators studied (high pitch vocalizations, IDAL = 15.4% vs. NEEDLE = 95.6%,

CONCLUSIONS: These preliminary results support that needle-free intradermal vaccination is a promising strategy to reduce fear and pain reaction of gestating sows during vaccination.

Keywords: Behaviour; Intradermal vaccination; Sows; Welfare

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