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Antimicrobial capabilities of tea tree and rosemary essential oils on refrigerated swine seminal doses

Essential oils may act as antimicrobial agents in seminal doses serving as an alternative to traditional antimicrobials in the face of increasing antimicrobial resistance.

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Genomics projects awarded $2.5 million from government, industry

DNA marker identifying lower-stress sows could save the Ontario pork industry $12.9-million in losses by saving piglets from being crushed or savaged by sows.

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Figure 2. Kr&scaron;kopolje sow with piglets (left) and boar (right).

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Breed cards: Krškopolje Pig

This chapter presents the history and the current state-of-the-art in the only Slovenian autochthonous pig breed - Krškopolje pig (Krškopoljski prašič).

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Magapor and Guyue sign historic agreement to build the largest boar stud worldwide

The two companies will build a 1,000-head boar stud in China which will be the largest boar stud in the world.

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Analysis of steroids in gilt saliva to identify biomarkers of the period of receptivity

The objective of this study was to develop alternatives to hormonal treatments to synchronize oestrus of gilts.

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(From left to right) José Ángel Pedrido, Customer Services Manager Swine, Hendrix Genetics; Friedrich Hazenfuß, Director AI, BHZP; Nicolás Álvarez Hoggan, General Manager CE & SE Europe Swine, Hendrix Genetics; Dr. Conrad Welp, General Manager, BHZP; Jeroen van de Camp, Global Operations and Services Director Swine, Hendrix Genetics; Daniel Stegen, Sales Manager, BHZP

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Collaboration the Key to New Pork Pact

Top breeder organizations Hendrix Genetics (Hypor) and German-based BHZP sign agreement, improving market concentration and collaboration.

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Direct contact with the boar is recommended for gilts. Doing so increases the proportion of gilts coming into oestrus in the first 3 weeks of boar exposure.

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Tips to stimulate gilts and sows coming into heat

In a series of articles, swine reproduction and insemination specialist, Javier Gil Pascual, addresses the key aspects of oestrus stimulation and detection, and insemination.

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Breed cards: Ibérico (Iberian) Pig

History and current status of the Iberian breed, an autochthonous pig breed of the Iberian Peninsula.

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What is gene editing?

This unfamiliar concept may sound strange to someone outside the industry, but this video explains that we have made breeding choices for thousands of years.

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Melatonin potentially acts directly on swine ovary

Melatonin interferes with cultured granulosa cell proliferation and steroidogenesis.

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Graphic 1: Farrowing rate and % returns, first services, year 2018 (689,024 services), PigCHAMP Pro Europa database (301,250 females).

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Do we fully understand gilts? Do we treat them as they deserve?

Gilts have more returns to estrus... but why?

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Caffeine administered to pregnant sows improves piglet vitality

Caffeine positively affected the vitality of the piglets, as indicated by greater vitality scores than that for the control group.

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Breed cards: Gascon Pig

History and current status of Gascon pig breed. This French autochthonous breed, which almost disappeared, now enjoys a new boom.

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Multiple healthy litters of naturally castrated piglets developed through precision breeding.

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The "Alliance to end surgical castration of swine" announces precision breeding successes

Gene-editing can be used to eliminate the need for castration and improve farm-animal welfare.

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The effect of three different feeding time’s strategy during sows’ gestation

Feeding management related to time of feeding in restricted gestating sows may enhance sow performance.

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60% of 333 users believe that semen doses rotation is useful, but is it really?

Some routines are widely used on the daily work of pig farms and we can even think that there is some good logic behind them, but have they been scientifically tested?