Researchers from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and College of Veterinary Medicine are publishing a series of articles in PLOS ONE comparing the various air samplers used to detect airborne viruses such as influenza. This first...
Everestus Akanno, PhD., Geneticist, Genesus Inc.
The breeding objective of nucleus swine breeding programs is to improve performance of commercial crossbred pigs. However, what appear to be the same traits (e.g., growth rate) may be expressed differently at the commercial...
Dr. Abdullah Mahfuz - R&D Manager - Animal & Nutrition Product Development
Salmonella spp. is one of the major microbial hazard in animal feed. Salmonella can persist for long periods in a feed and capable of causing gastroenteritis in animals....
A study by the Torremorell group was recently published in the Preventive Veterinary Medicine Journal. In this publication, Dr. Jorge Garrido-Mantilla et al. evaluated if piglets put together with a nurse sow were more likely to be influenza A...
DeGroot*1, M.; Boix2, O.; Ballarà2, I.
1 HIPRA ANIMAL HEALTH Canada Inc. / 2 HIPRA, Amer (Girona), Spain.
*Corresponding author: mike.degroot@hipra.com
INTRODUCTION
Sow mortality is a growing concern for pig farms in Canada. Many causes contribute to sow mortality including lameness, reproductive disorders,...
Land application of livestock wastewater is creating challenges for producers due to costs and environmental impacts. Finding alternatives is of great interest in order to have safe disposal with reduced costs. Wastewater contains nitrogenous and organic compounds that can...
Obtaining cycle threshold (Ct) values based on processing fluids provides a practical way to identify neonatal pigs at risk for nursery mortality associated with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) and can help determine when vaccination is worthwhile, field...
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Daniel Andersen, Associate Professor, Ag. and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa
Purpose
Iowa Select Farms installed an electrostatic precipitator at the end of two tunnel
ventilated swine finishing barns near Alden, Iowa. The objective was to quantify...
Previously, low levels of antibiotics were supplied in feed so that post-weaning diarrhea was reduced. Feed additives may be able to help replace antibiotics and decrease the incidence of post-weaning diarrhea. Three types of prebiotics and an organic acid...
Soybean expellers contain trypsin inhibitors, which negatively affect nutrient digestibility, feed efficiency, and health status of animals. Therefore, heat treatment is needed to inactivate trypsin inhibitors to improve nutrient digestibility in soybean expellers. Different types and degrees of processing...