May 15, 2026 · 19 min · 15 segments
Pain management for calves during high stress events such as branding, castration and dehorning is effective and has become more economical. In this episode Colorado State University Extension…
Travis TaylorHost
Pain management is one of those things that getting out of bed, the Advil, the Aleve, whatever you wanna give me, um, I may be interested in 'cause it gets me through the day, but we're really looking at some information that you researched in regarding pain management when we're working with beef cattle as we come through.
A- and Scott, I think one of the things we're getting into that processing season here in Eastern Colorado, and we've got some bigger calves, and we may be doing things such as castrating calves.
And one of the animal welfare issue is how do we manage that pain when we're castrating these calves? So in, in the research study or the information that you were looking at, m- kind of lead us down the line of how beneficial this is to calf performance.
Pain management is one of those things that getting out of bed, the Advil, the Aleve, whatever you wanna give me, um, I may be interested in 'cause it gets me through the day, but we're really looking at some information that you researched in regarding pain management when we're working with beef cattle as we come through.
A- and Scott, I think one of the things we're getting into that processing season here in Eastern Colorado, and we've got some bigger calves, and we may be doing things such as castrating calves.
And one of the animal welfare issue is how do we manage that pain when we're castrating these calves? So in, in the research study or the information that you were looking at, m- kind of lead us down the line of how beneficial this is to calf performance.
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