A simple tool to increase the amount of colostrum available to newborn piglets
A high dose of oxytocin given in the 16 h following the end of farrowing prolongs the colostral phase which can improve the quality of milk in early lactation.
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A visual and practical step-by-step guide on how to perform a necropsy on a pig.
All the information about ASF: how to recognize the disease, how it is transmitted, pictures of lesions, latest news, guides, etc.
Description of the most important diseases and conditions in pigs
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Pig disease diagnostic tool
Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
Simulator that calculates the amount of drug to add to the water when using a flow dispenser.
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The latest slaughter pig prices in the most important pig markets. Check the evolution of the historical prices in charts and in several currencies.
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Articles on nutrition and pig feeding, characteristics of raw materials and additives for pig feed. Prices of raw materials
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Technical sheets of the main raw materials and additives used in swine feed. They include a comparison of nutritional values from various sources, product
Global production and trade data for the most important raw materials
Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
Use this tool to diagnose problems with the feed conversion ratio. Click on the flowchart or on the buttons within the text to navigate through the different parts of the tool.
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Compare production data, calculate the number of sow, nursery, and finishing spaces, and visualize your tasks on the work schedule by type of BMS.
Tool that allows you to calculate the replacement rate in your farm
Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
Use this tool to find out why your farrowing rate is less than ideal. Click on the flowchart or on the buttons found within the text to navigate through the different parts of the tool.
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Management, pig farm management, work planning in each production stage: management in gestation, grow finish, batch farrowing
Compare production data, calculate the number of sow, nursery, and finishing spaces, and visualize your tasks on the work schedule by type of BMS.
Tool that allows you to calculate the replacement rate in your farm
Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
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Design of facilities and equipment for pig farms: building design, climate control, feeding systems, etc.
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Environmental Footprint Calculator along the pork value chain.
Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
Simulator that calculates the amount of drug to add to the water when using a flow dispenser.
Use this tool to explore which slurry management strategy best fits your situation. Click on the flow chart or on the buttons within the text to navigate through the different parts of the tool.
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Chantal Farmer is a research scientist in sow lactation biology with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
She has obtained her M.Sc. in Animal Science from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) in 1982, and her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University (USA) in Animal Industry in 1986. She has been at the Dairy and Swine Research and Development Centre in Sherbrooke since then and she has also been Associate Professor at Laval University since 1993. Her research goal is to increase sow milk yield and she has recently focussed on the control of mammary gland development. She has held numerous important professional positions, such as president of the Canadian Society of Animal Science and Editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Animal Science.
She has won 2 awards, namely the “Award for technical innovation in enhancing production of safe affordable food” in 2003 from the Canadian Society of Animal Science and an Award from the American Society of Animal Science to cover travel expenses as a guest-speaker to the European Association of Animal Production (EAAP) annual meeting in the Hague, Netherlands.
Dr. Farmer has over 105 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and she has been invited to give presentations in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Italy, Canada and the USA.
Updated CV 05-Sep-2013
A high dose of oxytocin given in the 16 h following the end of farrowing prolongs the colostral phase which can improve the quality of milk in early lactation.
These findings provide useful information that will assist swine producers in deciding whether or not to reduce litter size in first-parity sows.
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