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ACMC - Bringing home the silver

An armful of trophies was taken by ACMC pigs at Yorkshire’s Hull Market Christmas Show. They were awarded for the Supreme pen of pigs, Reserve pen of pigs, Best pen of cutter pigs, Best pen of bacon pigs and the Best pen of commercial pigs.

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Recela y cubrición de cerdas en jaula (II)

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Stimulation and mating of sows in stalls (II)

So far we have seen different options for retaining the males and for stimulating the stalled sows that maximize speed and stimulus. Once stimulated, now we are going to mate them.

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Recela y cubrición de cerdas en jaula (I)

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Stimulation and mating of sows in stalls (I)

Different systems of boar’s retention during stimulation and mating in stalls have already been seen. Now we are going to put it into practice.

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Boar control during heat checking and mating

Both for heat detection and for mating, maximum efficiency is achieved if the sow is well stimulated.

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Press releases

New boar quality assurance scheme

Although AI now accounts for 75-80 per cent of pig services nationally, the boar is still a very important animal on most farms and is used extensively to provide cover for sows both naturally and artificially inseminated on the farm.

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Seasonal Infertility in Swine

In natural conditions, there are seasonal fluctuations of availability of food and the earliness or delay in the onset of breeding is related to food levels.

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Improvac^® approval

EU Commission approves Pfizer Animal Health’s vaccine against boar taint

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All you need to know about boar taint

Not surprisingly, not many people even know what boar taint is. But that may be about to change. A new website which explains what causes boar taint and how it is controlled has just been launched.

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PRRS: Transmission via direct and indirect routes (1/2)

In this second part the direct routes (infected pigs and contaminated semen) and indirect routes (fomites and transportation vehicles) of PRRSV are tackled, as is the persistence of the virus because the persistence of the infection is a characteristic of PRRSV infections in pigs and plays a major role in the control and eradication of the disease.