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Dr. Carlos Perfumo
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - UNLP
The United States Department of Agriculture reported that sow mortality ranges from 2.5% to 3.7% each year, depending on herd size 1 . It also was stated that annual mortality rates of sows in typical confined-sow herds should not exceed 3% 2 . In contrast, some sow herds experience annual losses of at least 10% of inventoried females 3-6 . The reasons for sow mortality are poorly understood; however, larger herd size, greater parity, and short lactation length...
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Implications Nowadays, nearly one out of seven piglets dies before weaning in European commercial herds. Such a high mortality rate is a major source of economic loss and a subject for animal welfare concern. By providing energy and antibodies, colostrum plays an essential role in piglet survival. However, colostrum yield and concentrations of immunoglobulins were shown to be highly variable from sow to sow, and causes for this variability are not fully known yet. A better...
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Sows: common overlooked areas in swine industry
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Dr. Laura Greiner
Iowa State University
Sow housing options for gestation
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Introduction: Modern pig farming is still associated with a high pre-weaning mortality, which is partly caused by a slow progress of piglet expulsion. Most of the deaths occur around the time of farrowing and therefore farrowing is the most critical phase in pig production. The impact of farrowing includes not only the litter survival and subsequent health of the piglets, but also the feed intake and fertility of the sows. So farrowing rate is a main factor for consistent pig...
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Poul Baekbo
Poul Baekbo and 1 more
Introduction: Diarrhoea during the first week of life is a big concern in many Danish pig herds - not least since the suspected introduction of “New Neonatal Diarrhoea Syndrome.” The study investigates pathogens and management-factors associated with these problems. Materials and Methods: A total of 107 herds including 55 Case-herds with diarrhoea during the first week of life and 52 Control-herds without diarrhoea as a herd problem filled in...
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Carlos Piñeiro
ANAPORC
Introduction: Benchmarking has been widely practiced worldwide in the swine industry to improve farm management and productivity. Best practice benchmarking is defined as identifying those practices and processes associated with superior efficiency and performance. In the best-practice benchmarking for breeding farms, measurements in high-performing and ordinary farms have been used to provide values of target performance, using the 10th or 25th upper percentile of the...
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Laura Boyle
Laura Boyle and 1 more
Introduction: Piglets from gilts have poorer performance and health during later life. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of sow parity and other lactation parameters on pig welfare lesions in the weaner and finisher stages. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted on a farrow-to-finish commercial farm. At birth, the sex and bodyweight (BW) of 847 piglets was recorded as well as the parity of their dam and the number of piglets born...
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Alvaro Ruiz Ormeño
Universidad de Concepción - Chile
Introduction: Farrowing is a critical period for the sow in which painful, inflammatory and infectious processes along with other systemic events cause postpartum stress and may trigger Postpartum Dysgalactia Syndrome (PPDS) which manifests itself either in clinical or subclinical presentation, both with negative impact on the sow and its litter regarding the growth development of suckling pigs. NSAIDs are a pharmacological group widely used in veterinary medicine due to their...
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Introduction: Piglet mortality, mainly within the first 4 days after farrowing, is still an important welfare issue and an economical challenge. Variation in piglet mortality between herds with similar genetic material and physical environment indicates that the herd`s management is a crucial factor. The objective of this survey was to assess the importance of different management routines around the time of farrowing and other farm qualities for piglet survival in...
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Introduction: The objective of the present work was to collect preliminary production data on a newly-developed farrowing pen for individually loose-housed sows and to use these results to produce a pen for commercial practice which has a high piglet survival rate and improved sow and piglet welfare. Materials and Methods: The “Sow Comfort” farrowing pen” (7.9 m2) comprises two compartments: a “nest area” and an activity/dunging...
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Citrus-based additive characterization to explain microbiota modulation of peripartum sows and beneficial consequences
Sekhou Cisse (Nor-Feed, France) presents his poster regarding the effect of this additive on microbiota modulation, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
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Johannes Kauffold
University Leipzig
Common Reproductive Problems on Farms and Data Collection
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Frederic Guay
Frederic Guay and 1 more
Université Laval
1. Introduction With increasing public awareness regarding pig welfare, gestating sow housing systems are currently changing around the world to group-housing. While the legislation on sows’ group-housing was adopted in 2001 in Europe, the new Canadian regulation was enacted in 2014. The Canadian Code of Practice for the care and handling of pigs requires that all newly built facilities or those undergoing renovation must house sows in groups during gestation, or provide...
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Michael Ellis
Michael Ellis and 1 more
University of Illinois
INTRODUCTION Substantial increases in litter size have occurred in commercial swine production over recent years which have been accompanied by increases in pre-weaning piglet mortality. The number of piglets born alive to sows on U.S. units currently averages approximately 13.5; this number has increased by approximately three piglets over recent years (PigChamp, 2004, 2020). Pre-weaning mortality levels have also increased over this time period and currently average in...
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Nicoline Soede
Wageningen University & Research
Introduction As the economic success of sow husbandry relies very much, but not solely, on the ability of sows to produce a high number of piglets per sow per year, a high sow litter size contributes to this goal. Genetic selection for higher litter size has resulted in a steady increase in sow litter size in the last decades, and this increase in litter size still continues. For example, in the Netherlands, sow litter size (total number born) has increased...
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George Foxcroft
University of Alberta
Introduction Despite the wealth of information on the many factors that affect sexual maturation and the early breeding performance of gilts, it has been difficult to establish the needed protocols that produce a consistent supply of “good quality” replacement females. In the context of the latest genotypes available to the production industry, it is important to keep addressing the changing biology of the nucleus sows from which replacement...
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Juan Miguel Peralvo Vidal
Trouw Nutrition Asia Pacific
Introduction Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is the most relevant infectious disease in the swine industry. PRRS virus (PRRSv) live inoculation has been used to stabilize and even eliminate PRRS in positively confirmed farms. Batch farrowing is a production system used to maximize productivity and could be used to interrupt disease transmission in susceptible populations. This report captures the stabilization of a one site farm with a continuous production...
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