Pig Health Articles
-
The Best Floors to Keep Your Pigs Show Ready
Farrowing pigs for show is a satisfying way to introduce pig farming and farming in general to the next generation. But what exactly is a show pig, and how are piglets prepared to be purchased for ...
-
Producer’s Profile: Henry Creek Farm
Owners: Doug, Kim & Olin Claassen Potwin, Kansas, USA Farm’s Features: 1,400 sows farm, 4 week batch farrowing 8,000 finishings places, 220 farrowing places and 15 open-housing gestation pens Diversified production including 600 to 700 feeder cattle, 3000 acres in croplands and 800 acres in pasture. They have their own feed mill. They utilize their own corn and soybeans to ...
-
Farrowing feeding for sow production: What to consider to improve profitability and productivity
Feeding a Farrowing Sow: What Should we Consider? From feeder costs to feed palatability, here are some of the hot topics to think about when you are choosing the right sow feeding system for your farrowing rooms. Farrowing Feeding Methods Farrowing sows play an essential role in pig production since sow and litter performance can influence the swine industry’s next outcomes. Considering ...
-
It Takes Guts
If there’s one thing we know about pigs, it’s their love for food. A lot of food. We even use the terms such as “eat like a pig” or “pigging out.” Since swine are always on the lookout for their next meal, make sure the feed you’re putting in front of them will have a positive impact on their health and life-stage needs. Today, pork producers face ...
By Diamond V
-
Detection Workflow African Swine Fever Virus
How to detect African Swine Fever virus African swine fever poses a significant risk to wild boar populations and agricultural meat production. Currently the disease, which is caused by the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus, is spreading more and more in Europe. In Germany, the first case of an ASF infected wild boar was detected in the federal state of Brandenburg in September 2020. The need ...
-
R2 for mitigating the risk of PEDV, PRRSV and SVA - contaminated feed using an animal challenge model - Case Study
Introduction The porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) epidemic in 2013 - 2014 caused high morbidity and mortality for hog farmers throughout North America. Animal feed was identified at that time as a risk factor and one of the potential vehicles to spread the viral disease. Feed Energy's R2 line of products delivers essential nutrients to the animal through the feed source and has proven to ...
-
Effect of a lipid-based low pKa anti-pathogenic product (R2) on mitigating PRRSV in feed evaluated by quantitative RT-PCR and pig bioassay
Introduction In recent years, contaminated feed has been confirmed as a vehicle for transmission of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV). It was also demonstrated that a number of additional viruses, such as Seneca Valley virus, feline calicivirus, bovine herpesvirus-1, porcine sapelovirus, and porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), could maintain infectivity in feed ...
-
5 things to do in an African swine fever outbreak
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has provided updated numbers on the number of animals affected by African Swine Fever (ASF) across the Asian continent. Following the outbreak, more than 5.7 million pigs have been culled in Vietnam alone, with millions of other animals having to be destroyed across other countries including the Philippines, China, Cambodia, Myanmar and ...
-
MAGS Now USDA Approved by APHIS as a New Technology for Handling Regulated Garbage
MAGS: An Ideal Technology for the Treatment of Regulated Garbage Terragon’s Micro Auto Gasification System (MAGS) is now USDA approved as a new technology for handling regulated garbage. The commonly employed technologies including USDA/APHIS approved incinerators, sterilizers and grinders only offer sterilization and volume reduction benefits. Aside from the benefits of sterilization and ...
-
African Swine Fever devastates swine herds across Europe
How to protect yourself from the dangers of African Swine Fever. This year has seen the return of one of the most devastating agricultural viruses for pigs. With over 100 reports of the highly contagious outbreak of African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV-Asfarviridae) across Europe and Asia recorded during the start of autumn. Although African Swine Fever was believed to have been wiped out ...
-
African Swine Fever in Eastern Europe - Case Study
Addfield assisting the fight against African Swine Fever, it may not infect humans but this does not stop it having a devastating effect on those who keep pigs as their livestock. Client Overview Vilimeksas has been successfully implementing projects in energetics, medical and veterinary sectors in the Lithuanian market for more than 17 years. Advantages of using Addfield incinerators EfW ...
-
Main Applications of Truck Mounted ULV Fogger
A fogger is a machine which distributes chemicals such as insecticide or disinfectant into an area by means of a fine spray for killing insects and other arthropods. They are often used by consumers as a low-cost alternative to professional pest control services. The number of fogger needed for pest control depends on the size of the space needed to treat. There are different types of machines ...
-
Dead Poultries Harmless Treatment Methods in China
Dead pigs harmless treatment methods in China Any pig farm will encounter dead pigs, dead pigs are often important sources of infection of diseases to spread and spread, causing major economic losses not only on pig-raising industry, also will be a serious threat to human or animal health, so the dead pigs should be a safe and effective treatment. in the course of our work, are often faced with ...
-
CH#1115 - Small Holder Piggery Problems
Waste Type: Pig Manure Article: After 20 yrs with SAA, Mark Tutton, a qualified aircraft engineer, licenced to maintain Jumbos and having being stationed around SA and Mauritius decided to retire from the rat race. A few years before leaving he had purchased a small holding near Benoni where he bought [fattened] and sold goats & sheep. He came from a farming family, and, when he was ...
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you