Porcine Health Management

A multifactorial approach using environmental, performance, health and welfare parameters was used to investigate the numerous effects of ventilation throughout three consecutive fattening batches (08/2015 to 12/2016) in a farrow-to-finish commercial pig...

The accurate detection of oestrus is critical to improve reproductive performance in pig production. Nowadays is based on human and boar combined evaluation. However, the boars used to detect heat have a very high economical cost. The aim of this work was...

The influence of a respiratory disease in pigs of the same age but different weights on the development of backfat thickness and M. longissimus dorsi diameter may be of interest to see if specific types of pigs react different. The hypothesis was that...

Biosecurity, whether external or internal, impacts animal health by acting as a preventive factor in the introduction or spread of diseases. Biosecurity is an essential step for any sustainable approach to reducing the use of antibiotics in pig farms....

Placental insufficiency is a major cause of intra-uterine growth restriction that influences birth weight (BW) and the thermo-regulatory capabilities of newborn piglets. For current breeds, a change point for BW of 1.13 kg was determined under which...

Pig vets are twice as likely to develop chronic cough as other vets. Lung diseases in pigs account for substantial antibiotic use. Our aim is to measure the indoor climate in pig barns.

The evaluation of lung lesions in animals at slaughterhouse is a very useful tool to estimate the importance of respiratory diseases in the farms. This study aims to demonstrate the prevalence of bronchopneumonia (Enzootic Pneumonia) and dorsocaudal...

Influenza A virus in swine (IAV-S) is significant to the swine industry. Ingelvac Provenza™ (Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., St. Joseph, MO) is an intranasally administered live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) that can be given to pigs as...

In the Danish pig industry, a high level of zinc oxide in weaner diets (2500 ppm) is commonly used to control post weaning diarrhea (PWD) and thereby reducing the antimicrobial use for treating PWD. The European Commission has banned the use of a high...

Within the framework of the German-Dutch INTERREG V A-project Food Protects, oral fluids (OF) were tested under field conditions for their suitability in antibody detection against Salmonella spp. as a means of herd classification.

Colostrum intake evaluation is described in literature but the methods use is not applicable in production farms (time-consuming and costly). This study aims to define a more feasible protocol focusing on growth (i.e. quantity ingested) and maternal...

Molecular epidemiology of PRRSV, has been used for description of pathogen phylogenies and to make conclusions about the most likely virus source.The objective of this study was to analyze the dynamics of the PRRSV in one farm and to understand if the new...

Access to molecular techniques allows us to compare the phylogenetic similarities for a better understanding of the PRRSV dynamics.The objective of this study was to analyze the PRRSV dynamics in two farms.

Lung scoring at the slaughterhouse is an effective way to evaluate respiratory health status, economic impact and efficacy of vaccination on swine farms. The aim of the study is to evaluate the prevalence and severity of lesions in slaughter pigs in the...

Saliva has been widely used for monitoring, surveillance and detection of disease in porcine populations in the last 10 years. High sensitive but low specific biomarkers have been explored in saliva for disease detection; however, its implementation in...