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Allen D. Leman Swine Conference 2024 Summary: Production, sustainability, and nutrition

This year's edition of the Swine Conference in honor of Dr. Allen D. Leman was a special 50th Anniversary event and took place September 21-24 at the Saint Paul RiverCentre Convention Center in Minnesota, USA.

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SunPork reveals world-first innovation to achieve stall-free and farrowing crate-free pork production

SunPork to rollout new ‘maternity rings’ to eliminate farrowing crates.

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Summary of the 27th IPVS and 15th ESPHM-ECPHM: Reproduction, welfare, and nutrition

In this third installment, Antonio Palomo summarizes the papers presented on reproduction, nutrition, precision livestock farming, and other aspects of swine production.

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The self-catching function makes it possible to simply lock the animals in their pens during group farrowing, ensuring safe access to the pen and all important sub-areas.

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WEDA EuroTier novelty 2024: Easy SF - The self-catching gate for group farrowing

The Easy SF system from WEDA significantly improves overall animal control in group farrowing.

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EuroTier Innovation Awards 2024

The leading innovation award in the international livestock industry recognizes products with a function that has changed significantly, enabling a new process, or has significantly improved an existing process.

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Effect of postpartum meloxicam administration to sows and split-suckling

Postpartum administration of meloxicam to sows reduced clinical cases of disease, increased ADG in pigs, and increased carcass weight at slaughter.

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DanBred dam lines. Key management aspects

We interviewed Jesús Etxart to talk about the latest management recommendations for DanBred sows.

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Welfare and performance of sows and piglets in farrowing pens with temporary crating system

Results suggested that farrowing pens with temporary crating facilitated mother-young interactions and showed a higher crushing rate.

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The beneficial effects of providing prepartum sows with nesting materials

The provision of nesting material to sows prior to farrowing can increase sow maternal care traits and piglet performance.

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Effect of method of drying piglets at birth on rectal temperature over the first 24 h after birth

Results suggest that drying piglets at birth is an effective method to reduce rectal temperature decline in the early postnatal period, especially for low birth weight piglets.

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Cross fostering and nurse sows (II): How to do the movements?

We focus on moving surplus piglets, which forces us to use nurse sows. We explain two ways to do this in a very visual video.

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Effects of early intermittent maternal separation on behavior, physiological, and growth performance in piglets

Early intermittent neonatal maternal separation created stress and affected the growth performance of piglets during suckling. However, the growth rate was improved by compensatory measures during late weaning.

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Effect of drying and warming piglets at farrowing on preweaning mortality

Drying and warming the piglets favors their survival only in farrowing units with moderate or suboptimal temperatures (<25ºC).

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Effects of jute nesting material and enriched piglet mats on sow welfare and piglet survival

The jute material and piglet nests positively impacted sow welfare and piglet measures but did not translate into improved piglet survival.

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Neonatal diarrhoea: Management key points in France

Neonatal diarrhoea is a serious problem for farmers and vets. Affected piglets can develop severe diarrhoea from 1–2 h to 7 days following birth.

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Neonatal diarrhoea: Prevalence of enteric pathogens

The detection of a pathogen alone is not sufficient for elucidating the aetiology behind neonatal diarrhoea outbreaks. The diagnosis of neonatal diarrhoea is one of the most challenging ones in daily pig practice.