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EU PIG: project created to help improve Europe’s pig industry
"Ghost sows" and the other 8 most frequent errors when processing data (2/2)
This second part deals with the problems caused by not recording properly the cause of abortions, sows and piglets deaths, nurse sows and hormonal treatments.
Keys to Positively Impact Pig Performance and Care
"Ghost sows" and the other 8 most frequent errors when processing data (1/2)
This first part deals with backward and impossible data, i.e. the sows that are no longer in the farm but still appear both in the management softwatre and the 100% delivery rates in gilts.
Health protocols for replacements: gastrointestinal diseases (3/3)
Exposure during acclimatization can be considered the first dose of a vaccine, and pre-farrowing exposure its booster.
How to arrange pan feeders in the farrowing room
An easy solution to store these feeders is to hang them in the corridor of their room. In this way, they do not stand in the way and they can dry well before being used again.
Risk factors of colibacillosis in the farrowing unit
Management factors and environmental conditions are often triggers or predisposing agents, not only to the clinical presentation of the disease, but also its severity and course.
Health protocols for replacements (1/3)
The isolation and acclimation period is not negotiable, it is an investment.
FVE survey on pig castration
Replacements adaptation in Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae control
Gilts are the population most likely to excrete M. hyo during lactation because they will probably have become infected within 200 days prior to their first farrowing.
The simple things that make weaned pig management successful
Meeting the needs of the newly weaned pigs often proves to be difficult in many production settings.