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Behavior, production results and meat quality of intact boars and gilts housed in unmixed groups: A comparative study

In the present study, possible differences in behavior, production results and meat quality between entire males and gilts, both housed in single-sex groups but with visual contact to other groups, were investigated.

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Numbering of liquid feed valves with sows' ear tags

Use of sows' ear tags for identifying each of the liquid feed valves with their corresponding number.

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Effect of preoperative meloxicam or tolfenamic acid administration on stress and pain induced by surgical castration in piglets

Tolfenamic acid tended to be more efficient than meloxicam both during and post-castration.

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European Union: study and economic analysis of the costs and benefits of ending surgical castration of pigs

The study is aimed at providing EU policymakers with an improved understanding of which of the options is most adequate for pig meat production when weighing the costs against the benefits.

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Video tour of a pork plant featuring Temple Grandin

A tour of a pork plant guided by Dr. Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University and widely considered to be the world's leading expert on humane animal handling at meat packing plants. This video provides an honest look at how pigs are handled at pork packing plants.

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Causes of the losses/cullings of the sows: a tower of Babel (II)

It's necessary to promote a standardization of the causes of the losses/cullings of the sows. Some rules on which this standardization can be based on are proposed.

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Plaster for protecting the 'carpi' of newborn piglets

System for avoiding carpal injuries in suckling piglets.

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Effect of split weaning on sow ovulatory responses to injection of gonadotrophins during lactation

More split-weaned than control sows had elevated serum progesterone 2 days post weaning (47.6% versus 9.5%).

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Tag & Tell: dealing with broken needles critical for pork industry in Alberta

If you break a needle when injecting a pig of any age, tag it in the ear with the special marker.

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Nurse sows (II)

When using nurse sows (foster sows) whilst making some piglets "go forwards" before the expected time we end up weaning them one week before. This poses certain problems.

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New section: Replacement rate simulator

We have developed a new simulator that will help us to calculate the number of gilts to be entered in a farm when its activity starts, when increasing its sow census or when calculating the replacement rate of an already working farm.

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First we mark all the sows that we wish to examine

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Marking the place where the Renco device must be placed

The goal is to increase the agility of the reading process of the body condition of the sows using the Renco device.

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Three colours during the gestation. The more visual the easier

The goal is to make the management during the gestation easier using a different colour spray colour each week to mark the tasks carried out with the sows.

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Using tie wraps to tie navel cords

Using tie wraps to tie quickly and efficiently navel cords of newborn piglets.

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Hyperthermal boxes for hypothermic piglets

This trick allows us to save hypothermic piglets easily, quickly and with surprising results.

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How many nurse sows do I need today?

A simple method to facilitate the daily calculation of the nurse sows needed for the correct running of the farrowing quarters in a hyperprolific sows system.