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Back to school: Improving the pig's environment Pigs have been reared in confinement for millennia, but controlled environments and consideration of the ecologic needs of the pig are still new ideas.
21/01/2017
What you should know about gastric ulcers in pigs A common problem in growing pigs, producers can make nutritional and management changes to reduce the incidence of gastric ulcers.
03/05/2018
What if pigs went back to their roots? Over the decades, pigs were taken from rooting outdoors to being kept inside pig houses, away from the mud and the dirt they are used to
27/12/2018
Thermal images can be used to detect disease in pigs Measuring the radiated temperature of a group of pigs by infrared themography may be a useful tool for early detection of disease as some Canadian researchers
19/02/2019
Pigs may transmit FMD before showing symptoms Pigs infected with FMD virus were highly contagious to other pigs just 24 hours after infection.
17/06/2019
Basic infrastructure for small-scale pig farming The size of your pig housing infrastructure will depend on the number of pigs you have. Ideally, it should be strong, simple and adaptable
22/11/2017
Germany feeding pigs sustainably without soy The entire pig production chain in the German state Mecklenburg-West Pomerania is teaming up in an attempt to shake off its dependence on soy imports.
16/01/2017
Correct layouts when moving pigs manually Moving pigs can be quite a nuisance if the animals don’t cooperate, pig management expert John Gadd wrote in a previous contribution
02/01/2019
Don’t blame the pigs for new flu types Pigs have been suspected of producing new types of dangerous influenza viruses that were highly infectious for humans. But pigs are no more responsible for this
14/03/2018
Pig survivability project to reshape pork industry Increasing wean-to-finish survival of pigs 1% would add approximately 1.2 million pigs each year to U.S. industry.
20/02/2019