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Swine management
Pig production is the systematic rearing of pig breeds on scientifically based management principles for economic benefit. The main objectives of pig production are to provide consumers with pig meat and related products and to generate income for farmers.
Pig production plays a significant role in the livestock industry, providing an important source of protein and other valuable products. The systematic approach to pig rearing ensures that the pigs are healthy and well-cared for, which in turn leads to better quality products and higher yields. The focus on scientific principles and efficient management helps to reduce waste and increase profitability for farmers.
A swine producer who masters the art of good management has excellent profit opportunities. This is especially true with disease prevention and control. A healthy herd of good-growing, quality breeding animals — adequately fed and housed — provides maximum profit opportunities for the owner who does not over-spend for facilities and/or feed.
1. Introduction Transport is an essential and critical factor in modern pork production. During transport, pigs experience many undesirable factors and potential weather extremes. Factors that impact the pig’s well-being during transportation include: space allowance and loading density [1,2], transport duration [3], trailer design [4–6], handling methods [7] and trailer management [1,5,8,9]. Specifically, great challenges for maintaining...
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The feed intake of swine is a deciding factor for both health and growth. Its relationship with growth is obvious; it is the nutrient supply above maintenance which sets the upper limit to the growth of an animal. The impact of feed intake on health is underappreciated. Experiments with E. coli infections showed this nicely. These experiments aimed at screening feed additives against E. coli. However, each attempt to find effective additives, other...
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Introduction The fertility results of pig artificial insemination (AI) in The Netherlands are considered to be one of the highest worldwide. More than 98% of the sows in The Netherlands is mated through AI. Sow farmers put great trust in AI and are fully depending on the quality of the product. The Dutch cooperative pig AI centers put large efforts in producing high quality insemination doses as far as semen quality and genetic quality. In this paper the following aspects...
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INTRODUCTION Currently the potential impact of manure on the environment represents one of the world agriculture's major challenges. Once dominated by many small operations as part of traditional crop-livestock farms, livestock production has become highly concentrated in large operations. This development has separated animal production from crop production. Thus, the amount of manure produced often exceeds local demand for use as...
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Biodegradation of Mycotoxins: A Biotechnological Innovation for Safe Animal Feed
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Jacob Dall, Technical and R&D Manager at Vilofoss, talks to us about the company's developments in finding solutions for the pig industry during Eurotier 2016, in Hannover, Germany....
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Introduction Growing pigs produce tremendous amounts of heat (Brown-Brandl, et al. 2004) and when raised in confinement facilities this heat must be removed by the barn's environmental control system (Brumm, 2012). Standard barn ventilation systems that use ambient or outside air to remove this heat has only limited capacity to control rising barn temperaturesduring warm and hot weather. For this reason, numerous studies and papers have been...
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Introduction Water is the nutrient that is required in the largest quantity by swine. Compared to the other nutrients supplied by feed, it is the most frequently misunderstood and mismanaged nutrient. While various sources recommend that water be available free choice, most fail to offer specific recommendations as to number of drinking spaces, drinker type, delivery rates of drinkers, or to specify quality parameters. In...
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Weaning is a critical period in a pig’s life; the pig must cope with separation from the sow, the transition from highly digestible milk to a less digestible and more complex solid feed, a new environment, movement and separation from littermates, and exposure to unfamiliar pigs. During the first week pigs have a reduced growth rate, which is related in part to low and variable water and feed intake. 1,2,5 Additionally, the newly weaned...
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Dr. Ad Van Wesel, Global Species Technology Leader at Cargill, explained the benefits of group housing of sows and showed results obtained in Europe, during "IX Simposio Brasil Sul de Suinocultura", in Chapeco, Brazil....
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Introduction Animal vocalisations can contain information such as signalling threats [1], choosing mates [2] or alerting infants for suckling [3]. In case of livestock animals, information contained in vocalisations or other animals sounds could serve as valuable information for the farmer. A very good example is the rich vocal repertoire of pigs [4–6]. For instance, high frequency calls of pigs have already been...
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With the weather turning warmer and fields firming up, producers are turning their thoughts to field work with less attention often paid to the pigs in production facilities. In the past couple of weeks I’ve seen many dairy producers hauling manure prior to beginning any field work.
In this region of the US, the vast majority of swine manure is fall applied. This reduces the risk of compaction on wet fields and eases the labor crunch as planting time approaches. However, there...
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“Heat Check Boars” By: Paul Walker Thompson Date: January 11, 2016 I have just read a great article by Colin Johnson of Iowa State University where I learned some interesting things about “Heat Check Boars”. Let me share with you a few great points about “Heat Check Boars”. He states that Boar Exposure should start three days before you expect the sows to come into heat, and that the “Heat Check Boars” should be exposed to sows twice a day...
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Biodegradation of Mycotoxins: A Biotechnological Innovation for Safe Animal Feed
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“Prevention And/Or Dealing With Foaming Manure Pits”
By: Paul Walker Thompson Date: March 25, 2016
The incidence of Foaming Manure Pits and their potentially dangerous effects on Human Hog Producers and on Pigs is definitely of concern these days. (1,2,3,+4) Foaming Pits have also contributed to Flash Fires in Hog Barns that can burn a Hog Building down. Recent research has been conducted to try and find out why some pits start to foam.
Foaming Pits have shown to have...
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If we want to maintain a prolific and productive herd, we must continue to prioritise the introduction of high genetic merit replacement gilts into our herd. Additionally we must manage and feed them correctly in order to maximise the prolificy of breeding herd and efficiency of feeding herd in the future.
The old adage “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it” is often bandied about in all...
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Dr. Mike Brumm, owner of Brumm Swine Consultancy, Inc., gives a presentation about pigs in confinement and about climate control in pig barns at the XI National Congress of Swine Production, Salta Argentina. ...
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Animal welfare concerns are having a significant impact on livestock production. A particular issue facing the swine industry is the transition from individual gestation stalls to group pens, which has become a hot topic . Engormix asked Professor Lee Johnston , extension swine specialist at the University of Minnesota, to throw some light on this situation.
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We define competitive feeding systems as those in which an animal can obtain more feed by winning a fight. However, this does not necessarily mean that you will observe a lot of fighting in such a system. Often, the majority of fighting will occur within a couple of hours after mixing. Once a sow’s dominance status has been established by aggression (fighting), it is often maintained by very subtle agonistic behaviour. These behaviours include threats...
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Murdoch University researchers are investigating whether the effluent from piggeries can be effectively treated with micro and macroalgae so that species of the organism can be safely fed back to pigs.
The Cooperative Research Centre for High Integrity Australian Pork (Pork CRC) has invested $300,000 with the Algae Research and Development Centre at Murdoch University to investigate the proposals, which would cut costs,...
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Currently within the European Union the composting of dead pigs is not permitted. The cost of dead pig disposal however has risen to a level where it is now a significant cost for all pig producers (€200-300 per tonne). Therefore it may be the time to consider composting as an alternative strategy for disposing of pig carcasses. The use of composting as a carcass disposal method is widely used outside of the EU. Other EU member states...
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In India, there is very little information about professional management of a pig farm. Within this macro deficiency, there is acute absence of information on feed and disease management. Seeing the growth rate of piglets worldwide and comparing them to my recently started farm operations, i feel that i am not doing just enough. I need some help in factoring feed management for weaners, growers and finishers. My piglets are all growing and glowing till they are...
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