{"id":19425,"date":"2017-06-05T16:24:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T22:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19425"},"modified":"2017-06-05T16:24:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T22:24:51","slug":"feral-boar-a-potential-serious-threat-to-domestic-pig-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/feral-boar-a-potential-serious-threat-to-domestic-pig-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Feral Boar: A Potential Serious Threat to Domestic Pig Producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of 2013 70% of rural municipalities in Saskatchewan have a high probability of\u00a0boar presence based on RSPF analysis. These animals are resevoirs and vectors for diseases as well as being highly susceptible to parasites. Feral boar may transmit disease to other wildlife, livestock and humans via a number of routes such as:<\/p>\n<p>? Direct contact through fencing or when\u00a0fences are breached<br \/>\n? Contamination of feed and water<br \/>\n? Inhalation<br \/>\n? Venereal contact<br \/>\n? Aerosol distribution<\/p>\n<p>Constructing good barriers is critical in mitigating disease spread, reducing and eradicating local populations as well as building better barriers and creating better biosecurity protocols are all ways of reducing the spread of disease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Feral-Boar-A-Potential-Threat-Pork-Producers-Ruth-Kost-Dr-Ryam-Brook.pdf\">Feral-Boar-A-Potential-Threat-Pork-Producers-Ruth-Kost-Dr- Ryam-Brook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of 2013 70% of rural municipalities in Saskatchewan have a high probability of\u00a0boar presence based on RSPF analysis. These animals are resevoirs and vectors for diseases as well as being highly susceptible to parasites. Feral boar may transmit disease to other wildlife, livestock and humans via a number of routes such as: ? Direct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-pork-insight-articles","category-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19427,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425\/revisions\/19427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}