Preventing and Treating Disease through Improved Intestinal Function
Weaning is a stressful event in the life of a pig, with a combination of environmental, social and nutritional adjustments for the piglet to...
Genomic tools for addressing breed purity and optimising heterosis in pig production
Everestus Akanno, PhD, Geneticist, Genesus Inc.
Swine genetic improvement programs are concentrated in nucleus herds that keep single or multiple breeds or composites with the...
Weaning Sows Directly in Group Housing
Social stress from mixing sows has the potential to negatively affect sow production and welfare. Housing sows in stalls from weaning until five weeks after breeding...
Feeding Management – $how Me the Money
In order to be competitive in the pork industry, producers need to have a firm grasp of their cost of production. Since feed costs...
The Interaction Between Pig Density and Dietary Energy on Performance
Dietary net energy and stocking density independently affect performance, feed utilization and profits in the finisher barn. The objective of this experiment was to assess the...
On-Farm Experience with Swine Liquid Feeding: Research Unit at Arkell Swine – University of...
Author(s): D. Columbus, J. Zhu, D. Woods, J. Squire, E. Jeaurond and K. de Lange
Publication Date: April 5, 2006
Reference: London Swine Conference, 2006
Country: Canada
Summary:
The...
Genesus Global Technical Report. Carcass primals improvement – international market demand
Dr. Chunyan Zhang, PhD, Geneticist, Genesus Inc.
Canada is a major exporter of pork products, with ~70% pork being exported to the US, China, Japan,...
Use of Novel Technologies to Optimize Pig Performance
The overall project is assessing several novel technologies which can help producers to monitor health, welfare and feed efficiency while also offering tools to...
High Fibre Diets for Swine
Feed cost represents more than 60% of the variable cost of swine production and a major part of the feed cost is to ensure that pigs...
SEROLOGICAL SURVEY OF PORCINE PARVOVIRUS AND SWINE ERYSIPELAS ON VACCINATED SOW FARMS. IDENTIFYING VACCINATION...
DeGroot*, M.; Baratelli, M.; Jordà, R.; Rodríguez-Ballarà, I.
*Corresponding author (mike.degroot@hipra.com)
HIPRA, Amer (Girona), Spain
Introduction
The protective role of specific antibodies against Swine Erysipelas (SE) and Porcine...