Adding a local analgesic to the systemic pain medications used during castration relieved pain in colts, researchers recently reported.
The researchers observed three groups of 12 colts. All of the horses received pain medication before and after surgery. One group received butorphanol, a morphine derivative; one received phenylbutazone, an anti-inflammatory; and the third receive
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