Sow mortality: How and who? (1/2)
To reduce mortality, it is essential to diagnose the causes. To do so, we must answer four basic questions: how, who, when, and where? In this article, we'll address the first two.
To reduce mortality, it is essential to diagnose the causes. To do so, we must answer four basic questions: how, who, when, and where? In this article, we'll address the first two.
Since 1998, IFIP has had an experimental farm located in Romillé, Brittany, France, which allows them to run all types of trials at all stages of production.
As we do at the beginning of every year, we are back to ask you about the average pig price in your country. We will soon publish the results of your predictions for 2023, but now we are interested in hearing how you think this 2024 will go...
Sánchez-Osorio shares the key points on which Topigs Norsvin's health management is grounded.
Professor Pejsak’s view on tail docking: Is it ethically justified and practically possible to phase out this practice in piglets?
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What laboratory diagnostic methods can I use to diagnose FMD? Which one should I choose according to the situation? How do I interpret the results?
Doctoral thesis from the Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences Department, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), advised by Luciana Rossi.
Pig prices are rising briskly and steadily. Will the market be a carbon copy of last year? Guillem Burset doesn't think so. He thinks we won't reach 2.025 €/kg live…
In this logbook, each page corresponds to a week of the year in which all the matings during the week are recorded.
Pig farmers, research centers and higher education institutions will be working together in the EU-funded project ‘WelFarmers’ where more than 50% of the pig production in Europe is represented in the consortium formed by eight European countries.
We focus on moving surplus piglets, which forces us to use nurse sows. We explain two ways to do this in a very visual video.
At the beginning of last year, we asked our users what they thought the average pig price would be in their respective countries in 2023. Want to know who came closest?
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In the previous article, we learned about the concept of feed safety, its impact on swine production, and the responsibility of the compound feed industry in the food chain. Now we will focus on how to practically apply this concept in the compound feed production process.
Detection of lung lesions in slaughtered pigs also allows estimation of economic losses.
Are prices stabilizing in Poland? How do Polish prices currently compare to other countries?
This new section, coordinated by the pathological anatomy team of the University of Cordoba, Spain, will show us, in a very visual and practical way, how to perform a necropsy on a pig.
A case study on identifying and addressing entry-related biosecurity hazards on a sow farm.
We have developed a practical and visual swine necropsy manual.
The consequences of different nutritional changes were analyzed, whether applied to the pregnant mother or directly to the offspring. Doctoral thesis from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, UAB, Spain. Advised by Anna Bassols and with the collaboration of Antonio Gonzalez de Bulnes.
Straw is the best enrichment material to meet pigs' needs. How can we provide it?
In the end, depopulation was the option to reduce mortality and the excessive use of antibiotics in the nursery and subsequent phases.
The European Union will continue to be a "privileged island in world pig prices."
A deep introspection from the perspective of our staff.
Doctoral thesis from the University of Lisbon. The scientific advisor was Professor José António Mestre Prates with co-supervisors Professor João Pedro Bengala Freire and Professor André Martinho de Almeida.
European, Brazilian, and American pork exporters compete not only for China but also for Japan and Korea.
Join us in revisiting the articles that have resonated the most with our dedicated swine community throughout 2023.
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This farmer's solution mitigates the effect of wind blowing through the windows, whether we have mechanical or natural ventilation.
In 2022, high feed prices pushed up the cost of pig production in all countries, with an average increase of 27%.
Bartosz Czarniak analyzes the profitability data of Polish pig production in December and compares it with the data for August.
Artificial intelligence is not a passing fad in the swine industry but an ongoing revolution that is redefining the industry.
We propose a more direct indicator to look at and analyze reproductive problems on the farm.
We are at the end of an exceptional and strange year. Guillem Burset examines the factors that have shaped the hog market this year.
Drying and warming the piglets favors their survival only in farrowing units with moderate or suboptimal temperatures (<25ºC).
...and other things that are not so wonderful.
An investigation at both phenotypic and genotypic levels of the implications of the intrauterine development of the piglets in the postnatal growth. Doctoral thesis from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, UCM, Spain, advised by Antonio Gonzalez de Bulnes, Cristina Óvilo Martín and Beatriz Isabel Redondo.
PRRS creates frustrating challenges as it seems we have to keep learning the same lessons we already know, along with the occasional new chapter.
The working collective units and processing methods at the European level have been inventoried by country and by process.