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Producers make daily management decisions for the best practice of their property and the welfare of their pigs. However, these decisions are now being viewed under tighter scrutiny due to the introduction of PigPass. For some producers there are several grey areas which surround the Withholding Periods (WHP’s) and Export Slaughter Intervals (ESI’s).
PigPass is concerned with the animal husbandry of pigs and includes some information and questions around the WHP’s and ESI’s for commonly used...
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Paylean is the trade name of a swine feed additive produced and marketed by Elanco Animal Health. The active ingredient in Paylean is ractopamine hydrochloride, which is a member of a group of compounds classified as beta-adrenergic agonists. These compounds have metabolic effects in growing pigs and other food producing animals including mobilization of body fat tissue and increased deposition of lean tissue. A feed additive like Paylean is sometimes referred to as a “repartitioning agent”...
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Manitoba Pork Council says word that Maple Leaf Foods will build a new 110 million dollar state of the art hog slaughtering plant in Saskatoon will give its efforts to promote trade advocacy with the United States a huge boost.
Earlier this month Maple Leaf Foods announced it will replace its 65 year old Mitchell's Gourmet Foods plant in Saskatoon.
The new facility will be capable of processing 20 thousand hogs per week on one shift with the potential to double that number by adding a...
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For many years, pork producers have known a certain number of their pigs would either die or be injured during transport from farm to slaughter, however an increase in those rates during the 1990s coupled with concerns about animal welfare have led to a University of Illinois research project addressing the problem.
Led by Mike Ellis, professor of animal sciences and one of his Ph.D. students, Matt Ritter, the two-year project is studying the transport of slaughter weight pigs under both...
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Saskatchewan's swine producers are confident expansion of the province's pork processing capacity will allow them to more fully capitalize on the potential for growth that exists in western Canada.
Maple Leafs Foods is scheduled to begin construction of a 160 million dollar hog slaughter and processing facility in Saskatoon in mid to late 2006.
The new plant will replace the 65 year old Mitchell's Gourmet Foods plant, potentially more than doubling its existing capacity.
Sask Pork...
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A swine handling training program developed for the US pork industry will soon be offered in Western Canada.
The Trucker Quality Assurance Program was developed by the US pork industry to teach those involved in the trucking industry the best methods for transporting live hogs.
The program, which was introduced in the US in 2002, is being offered by Sask Pork to truckers in Saskatchewan beginning later this month.
National Pork Board Certification Programs Manager Erik Risa says the...
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Research conducted by the Prairie Swine Centre shows improved handling during the transport of pigs can dramatically reduce stress and the losses associated with that stress.
In an effort to assess the effects of handling on stress scientists at the Prairie Swine Centre compared groups of pigs moved over a specially designed 300 to 400 metre course.
One group was moved in a slow gentle manner while the other was moved in a faster more aggressive manner with part of that group also being...
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A new series of videos is helping new swine barn workers learn the skills they'll require to properly care for pigs.
'Staff Training for Pig Skills' is a series of video productions which run anywhere from three to six minutes.
The videos are being produced by DNL Farms, a White Fox, Saskatchewan based consulting company which focuses on skills, management and animal handling and husbandry training for the swine industry.
Don Lidster says the videos are intended as a tool for...
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