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FVE & EAPHM position on preventing tail docking and tail biting

FVE and EAPHM to work together with national authorities to promote the establishment an implementation of a system to eliminate the need for routine tail docking to better animal welfare.

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Effect of litter aggregation and pooling on detection of PRRSv in piglet processing fluids

Sampling technique validated to monitor PRRSV-2 using serosanguinous exudate or processing fluids (PFs) from tissues obtained during tail docking and castration provides a general framework to interpret PRRSV-2 surveillance program results more accurately.

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Genetics-ReproductionPress releases

What is gene editing?

This unfamiliar concept may sound strange to someone outside the industry, but this video explains that we have made breeding choices for thousands of years.

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Gradual weaning during an extended lactation period improves performance and behavior of pigs

Gradually weaned pigs performed better around transitions than abruptly weaned pigs and gradual weaning resulted in beneficial long-term effects on behavior.

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Animal advocacy organisations urge the EU to replace CO₂ stunning of pigs

Eurogroup for Animals and its 69 member organisations are calling for a move away from high concentration CO2 stunning of pigs, a common method of slaughter.

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Graphic 1: Farrowing rate and % returns, first services, year 2018 (689,024 services), PigCHAMP Pro Europa database (301,250 females).

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Do we fully understand gilts? Do we treat them as they deserve?

Gilts have more returns to estrus... but why?

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USA: What swine growers need to know about garbage feeding

The Swine Health Protection Act allows each state to determine whether garbage feeding is allowed within their state. Many states do not allow garbage feeding.

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Caffeine administered to pregnant sows improves piglet vitality

Caffeine positively affected the vitality of the piglets, as indicated by greater vitality scores than that for the control group.

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The Netherlands propose ending tail docking by 2030

The Minister of Agriculture of The Netherlands, Ms Carola Schouten, has agreed to end routine tail docking of piglets by 2030 with the Dutch pig sector.

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Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of ILRI, received the Knowledge Management Award from Andres Brandner (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu).

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ILRI knowledge management recognized internationally

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) was awarded the 2019 International Knowledge Management Award by the Knowledge Management Austria at a ceremony held today (25 Sep) at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Germany: the Bundesrat rejects the compulsory animal welfare labelling

The initiative presented by Lower Saxony regarding obligatory nature of an animal welfare labelling did not reach the needed majority when voted in the Bundesrat last September 20th, 2019.

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Picture 3. Current flow pattern of animal movement vehicles. The internal truck has been represented in blue and the external in fucsia. Area in yellow highlights the cross-contamination risk area.

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Analyzing and modifying vehicle traffic patterns to improve external biosecurity

An easily performed vehicle traffic analysis can dramatically minimize the risk of cross contamination into your swine facility decreasing potential disease challenges.

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Germany approves a new state and voluntary label in favour of animal health

The federal government has agreed on the introduction of a state and uniform label in favour of animal health to tag animal-derived food. The Bill on the labelling in favour of animal welfare was approved last September 4^th, and it would regulate in a first stage, the labelling of pork.

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