Calculate, Before You Vaccinate
Jane Jordan talks to John Richardson, Pig Business Manager about Intervet's new approach to managing the Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex. ResPig combines laboratory diagnosis with results from a practical farm assessment to determine optimal control...

Electronic Identification in Traceable Systems
As pork chains become more diverse and with increased stringency of some export specifications, animal identification (ID) and traceability is a key component regarding assurance of customer specifications for livestock products, writes Ronald O. Bates,...

Use of Vaccinations and Other Veterinary Treatments in Organic Livestock Farming
Farmers (in Australia), who wish to certify their farm’s produce as ‘organic’ must in the first instance meet the requirements of the National Standard for Organic and Bio-dynamic Produce, according to Robyn Neeson, Organic Farming Liaison Officer, at...

UK Pig Disease Quarterly Surveillance Report (to December 2007)
By Veterinary Laboratories Agency - This report monitors trends in the major endemic pig diseases and utilises the farmfile and VIDA (Veterinary Investigation Disease Analysis) databases. The report is compiled using disease data gathered by the network...

Economic Impact of Enterisol® Ileitis in Clinical and Subclinical Herds
By M. Adam, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health GmbH, Ingelheim, Germany. Worldwide, ileitis is prevalent in 3 forms: acute, chronic and subclinical.

Single Dose Therapies Can Help Control Disease
By Dr Don McDermid, Manager of Veterinary Services for Swine, Pfizer Animal Health, Canada. Producers know how quickly disease can spread in a herd, not to mention the dramatic impact it can have on their profitability. Swine respiratory disease (SRD)...

Field Experiment with Enterisol® Ileitis in Spain
By José Luis Lorenzo and Mª Luisa Rosas of MAPORC S.C. Segovia. Ileitis is a very common disease, and its prevalence is very high on most farms in Spain.

Castration of Pigs
By Dr. Allen Harper, Extension Animal Scientist – Swine, Tidewater AREC and published by Virginia Cooperative Extension, Livestock Update. Castration of male livestock intended for meat production is a long standing management practice.

Shoulder Sores in Sows
By Mark White BVSc DPM MRCVS, NADIS Health Buletin. Ulceration of the skin over the point of the shoulder producing a “shoulder sore” is a common finding in indoor sows.

UK Pig Disease Quarterly Surveillance Report (to September 2007)
By Veterinary Laboratories Agency - This report monitors trends in the major endemic pig diseases and utilises the farmfile and VIDA (Veterinary Investigation Disease Analysis) databases. The report is compiled using disease data gathered by the network...

Antibiotic Feed Additives: Politics And Science
By Chris Harris, ThePigSite Senior Editor. The debate regarding the use of antibiotic feed additives in food-producing animals has intensified in recent years according to Hector Cervantes Manager of Poultry Technical Services at Phibro Animal Health...

The Fourth IMS World Pork Conference
This article lists the presentations given at The Fourth International Meat Secretariat World Pork Conference and provides links to the respective articles.

Housing, husbandry and animal health and welfare in fattening pigs
By the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Animal Health and Welfare on a request from the Commission related to animal health and welfare in fattening pigs in relation to housing and husbandry.

Tail biting: Vice with a £10,000 or more price tag
By NADIS advisers. Aberrant aggressive behaviour in pigs is widely referred to as vice. In the growing pig this can take the form of tail, ear, flank, stifle or even vulval or penis biting. However, tail biting is viewed as the most widespread and serious...

Starting Newly Weaned Pigs
By Ed Barrie - Swine Sow-Nursery Specialist/OMAFRA and published in October 2007 Pork News and Views. Starting newly weaned pigs on feed is a management intensive task.