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Breed-specific weight adjustments for growth, backfat and loin muscle depth  Everestus Akanno, PhD, Geneticist, Genesus Inc.   Selection of parents of the next generation of pigs in nucleus breeding programs requires accurate estimation of breeding values for several traits. Among the traits...
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES MHYOSPHERE® PCV ID is a new, all-in-one intradermal vaccine against M. hyopneumonaie (Mhyo) and PCV2. The aim of this study was to assess its efficacy in the reduction of Mhyo-like lung lesions and PCV2 viraemia under field...
Garth Brown, General Manager at Canadian Centre of Gene Transfer – Genesus Inc. When semen reaches its destination, the farm accepts responsibility for maintaining the potential for consistent reproductive performance of semen doses. Upon arrival, semen doses should be immediately placed...
Farmscape for June 7, 2022 Full Interview 14:14 Listen Pork producers in Manitoba are advised to be additionally careful as increased numbers of pigs that have recovered from PED move to finish or slaughter and as manure from infected...
Chad Bierman, PhD, Geneticist, Genesus Inc. What is disease resilience and why is it important? Disease challenges in swine put downward pressure on the economics of pork production. Disease resilience is important because it is a phenotypic descriptor for individual...
Dr. Dinesh Thekkoot, Genesus Inc.   Sow longevity is a key economic component in commercial pig farming, as it is directly proportional to the herd replacement rate and to the total number of piglets weaned per sow lifetime.   Even though sow longevity...
Big Data and Machine Learning in Animal Breeding Dinesh Thekkoot PhD, Genesus Inc   Machine learning (ML) has been a buzz word for the past few years. ML is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to the study of algorithms to predict...
High dietary protein can potentially increase susceptibility of weaned pigs to enteric pathogens; it has been hypothesized that dietary supplementation with functional amino acids may improve growth performance of pigs during disease challenge. A recent study, published in the...
DeGroot, M.*; Cardinal, F2.; Galé, I3.; Rodríguez-Ballarà, I3.; Nodar, L3. 1HIPRA HIPRA ANIMAL HEALTH CANADA INC., (Otawa), Canada. mike.degroot@hipra.com 2 Triple V. (Acton Vale) Quebec, Canada. 3 HIPRA HQ. (Amer) Girona, Spain. INTRODUCTION Edema Disease (ED) is an acute enterotoxaemia affecting...
Maternal effects can be defined as all conditions that relate to how a dam’s genetics and life history influences how her progenies perform. These conditions can be divided into: Pre-natal conditions such as the ability to conceive, establish and...
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