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    Another Year Pig Producers Would Prefer to Forget?

    Husbandry Markets Industry and legislation
    calendar icon 18 February 2016
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    Feed Grains Markets Grow in a Shrinking World

    Husbandry Markets Industry and legislation
    calendar icon 29 October 2015
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    Role of Dietary Fibre in Diets for Growing Pigs - Part 2

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 11 September 2015
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    Optimising nutritional efficiency has become more of a challenge as modern feed formulations contain more sources of fibre, so Zhimin Huang and colleagues from the University of Minnesota produced this report looking at improvements in artificial feed digestibility measurements.

    Field Testing a Filter for Disease Control on Pig Transport Trailers

    Disease Managing disease Husbandry
    calendar icon 28 August 2015
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    Evaluation of a prototype air filtration system installed on a transport trailer showed that the use of selected microbial filters can effectively capture bioaerosols and prevent entry into the interior or the trailer, report Bernardo Predicala, Alvin Alvarado and Samantha Ekanayake of the Prairie Swine Centre in Canada in the Centre's latest Annual Report.

    New Advances in Co-products in Animal Feed

    Disease Husbandry Herd management
    calendar icon 21 August 2015
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    Wheat distillers dried grains with solubles (wDDGS) is a promising type of crop co-product which can be used in animal feed.

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    April 2015

    European Court Rules Laws on Animal Welfare in Transport Apply Beyond EU Borders

    Disease Pig Welfare Processing
    calendar icon 24 April 2015
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    Factors Associated with the Use of Antimicrobials for Treatment of Swine Dysentery in the Grower-Finisher Phase of Production

    Disease Husbandry Industry and legislation
    calendar icon 24 April 2015
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    This work reported to the Centralia Swine Research Updated 2015 by Krysia Walczak of the University of Guelph reveals that the disease did not show sustained within-herd transmission.

    Increasing Creep Feed Intake by Stimulating Exploratory Behaviour Using Enrichment

    Disease Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 24 April 2015
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    Providing pigs with a large feeder so they could eat together appeared to attract the pigs more than rope as an enrichment toy in this experiment at the Prairie Swine Centre. Authors Yolande Seddon and Jennifer Brown noted in the Centre's annual report 2013-14 that neither feeder size nor enrichment affected growth rate except in the short term, however.

    Breathe Easy:Ceva Supports Vets Improve Swine Respiratory Health

    Disease Managing disease Research and innovation
    calendar icon 23 April 2015
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    BRF Agrees Joint Venture to Access UK Foodservice Sector

    Processing Processing Research and innovation
    calendar icon 23 April 2015
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    Tail Lesions on Carcasses of Irish Slaughter Pigs

    Disease Pig Welfare Tail biting
    calendar icon 23 April 2015
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    Chronic tail biting appears to be a more common behaviour among Irish pigs than previously thought, according to Nienke van Staaveren and Laura Boyle in a recent newsletter from Teagasc.

    The Next Big Disease: Reducing the Risks Following PED

    Disease Managing disease Industry and legislation
    calendar icon 21 April 2015
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