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30 years ago, the idea of setting up a conveyor belt like the ones that are (or were) used in poultry farming appeared.

Practical implications of a study that analyzes the consequences of litter standardization by weight or number and the supply of creep feeding.

Weaning is a critical event in the pig’s life. It is a very important and stressful transition that, if not handled properly, can be responsible for the occurrence of diarrhoea and/or poorly adapted piglets.

Lifting partitions in the farrowing unit allows piglets from different litters to mix, sharing teats and socializing.

Analysis of the intestinal situation of piglets is an essential action in health management programs. A piglet population with good intestinal health has excellent feed conversion efficiency.

The disadvantage of some boxes is that some piglets are too big and lively and jump off easily.

Autolysis prevents histopathological diagnosis with special relevance to intestinal samples

Great care is needed particularly when handling young pigs above 6kg/3 weeks of age, to avoid causing lasting damage.

Oral fluids are practical, fast, easy, cost-effective and reliable methods for sampling pig populations, but it has not been easy or practical to obtain such samples from suckling piglets...

It is easy to see the reaction of the sows (of all of them!) when we supply them with paper. A handful in front of their snout or at the reach of their mouth is enough... oxytocin! It is like giving an injection!

How can we expect our livestock to acquire a healthy microbiome when there is such limited exposure to the microbes that they evolved with?

The animals that were retained several times throughout the flow originated from sows with lower average parity. They had a much lower carcass weight (around 10kg) and a higher average score for lameness, pleurisy and enzootic pneumonia lesions.

There is a widespread trend throughout Europe to decrease the protein levels in feeds, together with an adequate supplementation of industrial amino acids.

Choice feeding is the best choice for piglets of different weights and / or ages to choose between two different feeds in order to meet their growth needs. The response is even better in farms with enteric problems.

This article explains how E. coli breaks the complex intestinal barrier mechanisms in a comprehensible way.

Achieving good levels of colostral immunity by vaccinating sows is the first step to prevent scours; subsequently, active pre or post-weaning immunization must be added to prevent post-weaning diarrhoea.