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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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    February 2014

    Performance and Carcass Characteristics of Growing and Finishing Pigs Fed Diets Containing High Protein or Conventional Canola Meal

    Disease Husbandry Markets
    calendar icon 26 February 2014
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    Conventional canola meal replaced all of the soybean meal in grower-finisher diets without adverse effects on performance in a trial at the Hans H. Stein Monogastric Nutrition Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Chanpaign, while replacing more than 66 per cent of soybean meal with high-protein canola meal led to poorer growth.

    Understanding and Reducing Aggression Using Pre-exposure Before Sows Are Mixed in a Grouped Gestation System

    Disease Genetics and reproduction Pig Welfare
    calendar icon 26 February 2014
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    Allowing sows to get to know on another - by being neighbours - in the service area seemed to make them more aggressive when they were later mixed in group housing for their pregnancy, according to new research from Purdue University.

    European Vets Support Swill Feeding Ban to Control African Swine Fever

    Disease Notifiable diseases African swine fever
    calendar icon 25 February 2014
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    New Programme for Royal Bath and West Show

    Industry and legislation Conferences & Events
    calendar icon 25 February 2014
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    Space Allowance and Pen Size Affect Welfare Indicators and Performance of Growing Pigs under Comfort Class Conditions

    Disease Pig Welfare Husbandry
    calendar icon 25 February 2014
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    Dutch researchers report adverse effects of increased group size or stocking density on the performance and welfare of pigs housed in a system offering more space than a commercial farm.

    Estimated Prevalence and Impact of Periweaning Failure to Thrive Syndrome in Canada and United States

    Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention
    calendar icon 25 February 2014
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    Based on a survey of 55 pig veterinarians, the average prevalence of Periweaning Failure to Thrive Syndrome (PFTS) was 4.3 per cent and it was found in five Canadian provinces and 11 US states.

    Anti-idiotypic Antibodies Reduce Efficacy of Attenuated Vaccine against Highly Pathogenic PRRSV Challenge

    Disease Managing disease Treatments and prevention
    calendar icon 25 February 2014
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    The results of a study in China have led the scientists there to recommend against the use of an attenuated vaccine against Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) when a certain type of antibodies is present in the pigs or the animals' health could deteriorate.
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