Carles Casanovas
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Swine Practitioner. Spain
ccasanovas@telenginyers.net
He was born in 1974 and graduated at the Veterinary Faculty of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain) in 1998.
After graduating he was in Aberdeen (Scotland) for one year to do a Masters in Swine Production organized by Professor Peter English.
On returning to Spain he spent a year preparing the theoretic information on CD for the first courses for breeders that the Sus Scrofa Fundación Barceló began to give at the end of the year 2000.
At the beginning of 2001 he began to work as a porcine consultant, and since 2004 he combines this work with a teaching position at Sus Scrofa, giving talks and practical courses on management of swine herds.
During the final year at university he began to collaborate as a “swine reporter” for the journal EdiPorc. Since then he has kept to his origins as a journalist, publishing articles and clinical cases in the journals EdiPorc, PorcPress and Suis and for the website 3tres3.com. He has also presented clinical cases in 3 Jornadas de Porcino at the UAB. Carles Casanovas has been very fortunate to have been able to learn and collaborate during this time with important professionals from the sector such as José Casanovas, Josep Font, Jordi Ventura, José Barceló, Enric Marco, Miquel Collell and Jerome Geiger.
Hormone management (III)[Management]Carles Casanovas When external administration of the hormonal product is stopped, the levels of progesterone fall. |
Management of planning (II)[Management]Carles Casanovas In the first part of management of planning we basically looked at how it can help us to control returns. In this second part we will look at other applications. |
Birth programming I[Management]Carles Casanovas In this chapter we will look at how hormones can be used to influence the time of parturition according to our needs. |
Management of hoppers with liquid diets[Management]Carles Casanovas Since concentrated feeds were first used it has been possible to see that mixing them with water has certain advantages. Probably the most important are a higher consumption and an improved exploitation. |
Feed wastage[Management]Carles Casanovas Regardless of these causes we often waste food needlessly. The animals do not consume everything that arrives to the farm. |
Hormone management (II)[Management]Carles Casanovas When the sow becomes pregnant, the corpus luteum persists and continues to produce progesterone. While the levels of progesterone are high the sow does not become in heat and maintains gestation. |
Stimulation and mating of sows in stalls (II)[Management]Carles Casanovas So far we have seen different options for retaining the males and for stimulating the stalled sows that maximize speed and stimulus. Once stimulated, now we are going to mate them. |
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