Porcine Health Management

To monitor production parameters farms started to use data collecting and analyzing management tools. One of the most important economic parameters of sow farms is the farrowing rate.

Most of the sow farms in Hungary utilize hyper prolific breeds, and they usually have high culling rates. Sometimes the sows, which are culled due to reproductive failures, have functional ovaries, but the farm cannot detect this with data analysis,...

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).

Introduction: Vulvar discharge is frequently observed in sows with bacterial infection of the urogenital tract and cause economic losses due to reproductive failure in affected sows. Several risk factors for this condition have been described and,...

A piglet-producing herd in Finland suffered from inadequate milk production of sows. Investigation of the problem revealed that 35% of the sows had low water intake, constipation and excessive swelling of the udder prior and during parturition. The...

Introduction: Previous research showed that urinary tract infections (UTI) in sows are associated with poor reproductive performance. Parameters such as farrow rate, risk of rebreed, and weaned piglets per litter has been associated with the presence of...

Introduction: Especially after birth, the colostrum supply of newborn piglets is of particular importance for the survival and further development of the piglets. The aim of this study was to investigate in what way the farrowing system and thus the...

Runt pigs are intrauterine growth retarded animals characterized by low birth weights (BW). They have higher mortality rates, reduced daily gain and pork quality and increased feed conversion rate. Colostrum intake (CI) is negatively correlated with BW and litter size. For current breeds, a minimum BW of 1.13 kg is needed for normal survival chances. The objective of this study was to investigate the relation between low BW, CI, mortality and development.

Increasing fatness and avoiding puberty are desirable in gilts intended for Teruel dry-cured ham. This study was conducted to assess the impact of Vacsincel® (Zoetis), vaccine indicated for temporary oestrus suppression, on gilt genital organs and carcass fat, relative to time of second dose before slaughter.

The transport temperature of boar semen doses is a critical factor to maintain an optimum seminal quality until the artificial insemination time. The spermatozoa metabolism decreases at 16ºC, which favors the preservation of viability for a longer period. Extenders should protect and buffer the harmful effects (capacitation, decrease mitochondrial activity, apoptotic process,...) of temperature changes during transport and storage in sperm cells of seminal doses for an optimal fertilizing capacity. The objective of this study is to evaluate the protective effect of the extenders BTS vs. Long-term against the influence of the transport temperature of seminal doses.

Post-mortem collection of boar genitalia in the slaughterhouse and its later study in the laboratory is a useful diagnosis tool for the veterinarian. In the past several years, an increase of slaughtered young boars due to bad semen quality has been recorded. This fact worsens the animal amortization and decreases the productive capacity of the boar stud because they are slaughtered long before the end of their useful life. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between anatomicalhistological study (through in vivo biopsies) and reproductive problem or semen quality able to make an early diagnosis of treatable diseases, thus increasing the boar retention rate.