Oxidative stress in pigs
What is oxidative stress and why is it so important? What relationship does it have with tail bites, weaning, late pregnancy or high milk production?
The pig sector events all around the world
Pig health: news and articles on PRRS, PCV2, biosecurity, etc, Pig disease guide, atlas of pathology, clinical cases…
Biocheck.UGent is an independent, risk-based, scientific scoring system for assessing the quality of your on-farm biosecurity.
A visual and practical step-by-step guide on how to perform a necropsy on a pig.
All the information about ASF: how to recognize the disease, how it is transmitted, pictures of lesions, latest news, guides, etc.
Description of the most important diseases and conditions in pigs
Images of major swine diseases
Pig disease diagnostic tool
Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
Simulator that calculates the amount of drug to add to the water when using a flow dispenser.
Pig Prices by countries. Pork production and trade. News of the pig market and the raw materials
The latest slaughter pig prices in the most important pig markets. Check the evolution of the historical prices in charts and in several currencies.
Latest quotations for the main commodities used in pig feed. Historical graphs with the pig price and estimated feed price.
Figures & trends in pig numbers, pork production and pork trade.
Global production and trade data for the most important raw materials
Articles on nutrition and pig feeding, characteristics of raw materials and additives for pig feed. Prices of raw materials
Latest quotations for the main commodities used in pig feed. Historical graphs with the pig price and estimated feed price.
Technical sheets of the main raw materials and additives used in swine feed. They include a comparison of nutritional values from various sources, product
Global production and trade data for the most important raw materials
Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
Use this tool to diagnose problems with the feed conversion ratio. Click on the flowchart or on the buttons within the text to navigate through the different parts of the tool.
Articles on genetics and pig reproduction: genetic improvement, genomics, artificial insemination, use of hormones
Compare production data, calculate the number of sow, nursery, and finishing spaces, and visualize your tasks on the work schedule by type of BMS.
Tool that allows you to calculate the replacement rate in your farm
Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
Use this tool to find out why your farrowing rate is less than ideal. Click on the flowchart or on the buttons found within the text to navigate through the different parts of the tool.
Management, pig farm management, work planning in each production stage: management in gestation, grow finish, batch farrowing
Compare production data, calculate the number of sow, nursery, and finishing spaces, and visualize your tasks on the work schedule by type of BMS.
Tool that allows you to calculate the replacement rate in your farm
Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
Design of facilities and equipment for pig farms: building design, climate control, feeding systems, etc.
Biocheck.UGent is an independent, risk-based, scientific scoring system for assessing the quality of your on-farm biosecurity.
Definition for the most commonly used pig terms
Use this tool to explore which slurry management strategy best fits your situation. Click on the flow chart or on the buttons within the text to navigate through the different parts of the tool.
What is oxidative stress and why is it so important? What relationship does it have with tail bites, weaning, late pregnancy or high milk production?
Compilation of nutritional strategies for the management of gut health, grouped by functional additives, functional ingredients and diet modifications.
As of August 13th, 2019, the maximum copper limit allowed in piglet feed will be reduced. Faced with this change, what nutritional strategies can I use?
Although we know that the amount and the quality of nutrients induce direct effects on health, the interaction of nutrition with epigenetic modifications is normally overlooked.
The two measures studied would allow to reduce liveweight variability at slaughter by 10-15%.
Nutritional value (table comparison), production, trade and the most recent studies on soybean meal.
Main elements that can be found in the digestive environment and how they are involved in gut health.
The objective of this article is to critically assess the use of probiotics in the post-weaning phase, and provide few suggestions to improve results when using probiotics in weanlings.
Corn is the primary grain used for ethanol production in the USA, but European and Canadian ethanol plants often use wheat or a combination of wheat and corn.
What is the "gut health" concept that everyone talks about? Why is it important?
The goal is to be able to make that some individual dispensers do not deliver feed when they are all full
The majority of the published work shows that the use of fatty acids in pigs has health benefits however its mode of action is still scientifically debated.
Nutritional value (comparison of tables), production, trade and the most recent studies on barley.
Fiber is being "rediscovered" due to its multiple benefits: physiological, on intestinal health and for the environment.
The goal is to improve the piglets’ starter feed consumption in the farrowing pens.
The effect of environment temperature on the body temperature is greater than that of ingestion and digestion of food.