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.
I went to the Royal Veterinary College in 1962. I qualified in December 1967 in the heat of Foot and Mouth Disease.
Between 1968 and 1970 I was the beneficiary of a Pig Industry Development Authority (PIDA) studentship in the Dept of Pathology, initially being trained by Klaus Jericho before he returned to Canada both of us under the auspices of the late Professor ‘Ernie’ Cotchin. This gave me a good training in large animal medicine, animal husbandry, routine diagnostic pathology, and in pig research. These PIDA awards were the best thing that ever happened in pig research.
These newly acquired skills were honed in Animal Health at the RVC with Professor Jet Jones whose MSc course was a benefit to very many veterinarians from all over the world. It was also an opportunity to run the college pig unit and an advisory group in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire during the period from 1970-1975. Three years in practice followed but in 1978 I returned to the RVC to teach farm animal anatomy, histology and embryology with legends of veterinary anatomy Ray Ashdown and the late Peter Goody. This period led to co-authorship of three illustrated atlases of horse, ruminant and canine anatomy. By this time the late Jack Done, head of Pathology at the Central Veterinary Laboratory (CVL) had decided that I had learnt enough of the background subjects essential for a farm animal investigator and pathologist to be invited to join the Pathology Department (1983).
Over the next twenty years pathological investigation produced a large number of research topics and papers but by 2002 CVL was into data collection. The main thrust of veterinary investigation was in the Regional Diagnostic Laboratories and so it was a big northern adventure to take the post of SVIO at the VLA-Thirsk Regional Laboratory. In some ways this was like coming home as Thirsk RL together with Bury St Edmonds are the main centres of the VLA pig activities. I have been extremely fortunate with most of my colleagues particularly in The Pig Veterinary Society. This has enabled me to write nearly 300 communications of various sorts including contributions to 5 textbooks. I now teach ‘piggy bits’ at 2 Veterinary Schools. Stan Done, BA, DVetMed, PhD, Dipl ECPath, Dipl ECPHM, FRCPath, FRCVS. Visiting Professor of Veterinary Pathology, University of Glasgow, and VIO, Veterinary Laboratories Agency -Thirsk
Updated CV 02-Jun-2011
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