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Questions and answers around sow claw trimming

Lameness is a multifactorial problem, including nutrition, poor horn quality, trauma, infection, type of housing and walking surface. This paper reviews the functional morphology of the critical structures involved in horn formation and growth to better understand the mechanisms involved in the development of lameness.
By Dr Sarel Van Amstel, professor of farm animal medicine and surgery, University of Tennessee, USA   Pig producers themselves can help to prevent sow lameness problems, by trimming... read more »

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African swine fever hampers Russian pork market

Although production performance of the pig industry in Russia showed a continuing positive trend in the first quarter of 2011, the growth rate of pork production has slowed down, according to a study by the analytical department of the Information Analytical Agency, ‘Imit’. Investments in the domestic Russian pig market lost attractiveness due to the more frequent outbreaks of African Swine Fever. read more >

What the textbooks don’t tell you about…Using the vet efficiently (part one)

I wrote about this six years ago. So why the need to look at things again? This column is based on what the textbooks don’t tell you, or don’t cover sufficiently, at least in my opinion. The two best veterinary textbooks on pigs, written by pig specialist vets, of course, cover the veterinary subject brilliantly, but strangely neither of them tell you how to use vets effectively. read more >

Antibiotics with a strong emphasis on ‘prudent use’

With antibiotics receiving increasing amounts of scrutiny in the EU and elsewhere in the world, manufacturers of these products cannot get away with solely promoting the product. A strong story of prudent use is necessary to convince veterinarians and producers alike. read more >

Highly pathogenic PRRS in China:  From outbreak to control

The heart of China was the first to record occurrence of what later turned out to be Highly Pathogenic PRRS, in the spring of 2006. At the time it was unknown what exactly the origins were of the disease – but now, some years later, causes, effects and treatments have become clearer. read more >

Heterologous challenge with a highly virulent Asian (Genotype-II) strain

The emergence of highly virulent PRRS virus (PRRSV) strains in China in 2006 was a milestone in the epidemiology of PRRS in Asia. Nowadays, genotype II strains of different virulence coexist with genotype-I strains in this continent. At present, Amervac-PRRS (a genotype-I vaccine) is licensed and marketed in many countries of Asia and, therefore, contact of vaccinated herds with highly virulent genotype-II strains can be expected. read more >
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