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Mystery pigs
As usual at any farm visit, pigs announce themselves rapidly. A strong, familiar odour usually enters through the car ventilation system or window before I have had the chance to get out.
What’s in the piglet feed?
When evaluating a new piglet feed for your farm, you need to have a ready list of tough questions to ask the seller to ensure you buy a quality product. After all, piglet feed is the most expensive feed you buy and you better not waste money! So, here are some easy and not so easy questions to add to your interview process.
PRRS infections – where are we post PCV2?
With PCV2 vaccines becoming more available and now many countries are seeing the benefits where does that leave us with PRRS virus, will we still need to vaccinate against it?
Moving pigs
I've just come back from a tour of farms where I watched young pigs being moved and older pigs being shipped. None of it was being done very well – too many pigs, too hurried and too much noise!
Hobbling
There's perhaps nothing new to me saying that city folk cannot always exactly understand the mind of a farmer.
Feed Formulation Software
I am looking for a feed formulation programme! No,
this is not a ‘wanted’ advertisement, but an invitation to discuss what is out
there and what best suits everyone. So, let me start by sharing my own
experiences and frustrations, so far.
Ying and Yang at EuroTier
"I'm going crazy," one of my colleagues said, trying to catch some breath
at the Reed Business booth at EuroTier. "I need to have blinkers on, I see so
many places I want to go to. If I stop at all booths that seem interesting, I'll
never complete my programme!"
Medication via liquid feeds – do we need further controls?
In the UK, our Veterinary Medicines Directorate are
planning to restrict the use of medicines – medicated feed premixes and water
soluble products - in liquid feeds. These medicines will not be allowed to be
added to liquid feeds directly. What is the situation in the rest of Europe, how
do you medicate liquid feeds?
Weaning capacity
I've been writing quite a bit recently on Sow Productive Life (SPL) and
that I am disturbed at pig farmers' apparent complacency about how short it is
these days – and what to do about extending it.
Replacing plasma - how?
Following my last blog on the use of immunoglobulins from hyper-immunised eggs as a means of controlling diarrheas and replacing animal plasma, I have received many emails asking me how animal plasma works and on what grounds egg immunologlobulins can replace it. I think we should take time this week to discuss this issue!
