Porcine Health Management

Swine production has markedly increased its reproductive performance over the past 50 years. One of the most important limitations to continue increasing the size of the litter, or to fully express the genetic potential of the breeders, is the prenatal...

New technologies and innovative farm’s equipment allow massive data collection that properly used can help to optimise production. In particular, electronic sow feeding is helping to understand better sows’ needs and performance. This study aimed to...

The objective of this study was to describe the evolution during the last 10 years for the reproductive KPIs including: farrowing rate (FR), adjusted farrowing rate (AFR) and number of repeat services (RS), including big and small farms because of its...

The objective of this study was to describe the evolution during the last 10 years for the reproductive KPIs including total born (TB), born alive (BA), still born (SB), mummifies (MM), weaning to first service interval (WFSI) and preweaning mortality...

The objective of this study was to describe the evolution during 2008-2018 (June to June) for the reproductive KPIs including farrowing rate (FR), adjusted farrowing rate (AFR) and number of repeat services (RS).

Vaccination might be effective to control Salmonella infections at farm level. The present study evaluated the effect of group vaccination of sows and gilts against S. Typhimurium (ST) on Salmonella serology in sows and their offspring and the excretion...

In recent years farm animal welfare has sufficiently attracted political and social attention. However, in Germany, there is no governmental pig welfare monitoring. One reason for this is that the assessment by farm visits needs many personnel and...

Antimicrobial usage reduction is strongly encouraged in pig production. National dispositive and regulation can support and drive efforts towards a decrease of antimicrobial usage. But to consider farm specific situation and context, diverse alternatives...

Hepatitis E virus is a zoonotic pathogen for which pigs have been recognised as the major reservoir in industrialised countries. High variability of HEV dynamics has been described in pig farms and may be related to the influence of other pathogens,...

Salmonella is a widespread pathogen that infects a variety of animals, including man. Reducing prevalence in pig farms contributes to minimising contamination at slaughter, improving the safety of meat and offal for human consumption, as the slaughter...

Antimicrobial consumption can either be measured in doses or in tonnes active compounds as the total consumption for the whole pig production or as relative consumption by considering changes in the composition of the production.The purpose of this study...

A Danish fattening farm buying pigs at 30 kg experienced a sudden increase in Salmonella meat juice index (based on Salmonella antibodies present), resulting in higher economic deductions at the slaughterhouse. One of the piglet supply farms was positive...

Livestock associated MRSA (LA-MRSA) is wide spread in pig herds in most European countries. Most peo-ple working in positive pig farms will carry LA-MRSA in their noses. These farm workers may transmit this organism to other people outside the farm...

Antimicrobial usage is the main driver for selection of antimicrobial resistance. This causes a health risk for animals and humans. The aim of this study was to decrease the use of antimicrobials in Belgian pig herds. Farms that already used few...

Among different European countries, differences in usage patterns of antimicrobials (AM) are enormous. The objectives of the two studies summarized in this presentation were (1) to describe differences and similarities of AM usage patterns in different...