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Needle-free vaccination has many advantages over conventional vaccination, but it is not as comfortable to do. This trick gives us a solution.
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Needle-free vaccination has many advantages over conventional vaccination, but it is not as comfortable to do. This trick gives us a solution.
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Low birth weight increases mortality during the lactation period and affects the productive life of piglets until slaughter. This article attempts to answer the question: Is pre-weaning mortality related to a birth weight threshold?
To have good gilt performance, producers and vets must value those gilts and invest accordingly. Dr. Clayton Johnson from Carthage Veterinary Services shares some tips about gilt productive development.
Castration remains prevalent in European countries, although the systems used differ from country to country.
The invention of a device that significantly improves animal care and worker safety in pork barns during blood sampling won the award.
This new obligation is accompanied by training for pig and poultry farm reference persons.
Some farmers have devised a device that allows them to tattoo the whole litter at the same time. We'll show you how it works.
On January 1, 2022, the decree prohibiting the castration of piglets without anesthesia will come into force.
An optimized weaning diet may be one of the most important tools in obtaining a successful weaning. The diet tested in this trial could keep post-weaning diarrhea at very low level.
The Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA), the National Institute for Drug and Food Surveillance (INVIMA), and the Danish Veterinary and Food Agency (DVFA) signed a new Memorandum of Understanding to continue cooperation between Colombia and Denmark in veterinary and food safety matters.
Replacing ZnO requires a complex solution that combines management and feeding strategies to solve weaning diarrhoea.