{"id":21474,"date":"2018-07-17T11:28:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=21474"},"modified":"2018-07-17T11:28:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:28:14","slug":"transition-to-antibiotic-free-production-on-farm-management-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/transition-to-antibiotic-free-production-on-farm-management-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition to Antibiotic-Free Production: On Farm Management Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author: <\/strong>Greg Wideman, DVM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference: <\/strong> Banff Pork Seminar Proceedings 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Antimicrobial-free is growing in demand as concern for the interplay between antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance is expressed. As a result, South West Vets&#8217; has made it their objective to best equip their clients to raise antibiotic free pigs.<\/p>\n<p>Good data management and performance monitoring systems include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simple and up to date<\/li>\n<li>Accurate<\/li>\n<li>Web-based, which allows for the entire production team to access<\/li>\n<li>Time period closeouts<\/li>\n<li>Ability to follow &#8220;treated&#8221; and &#8220;program&#8221; pigs<\/li>\n<li>Allowing for accurate bench marking when necessary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Essential for an antibiotic free system is the elimination and control of critical diseases. As well, weaning age is an important factor influencing the success of antibiotic free production. It has been demonstrated to manage specific diseases in older weaned pigs.<\/p>\n<p>Daily management that harbors positive results in an antibiotic free system includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Colostrum to mitigate early infections<\/li>\n<li>Effective fostering protocols that reduced horizontal disease transmission<\/li>\n<li>Processing hygiene<\/li>\n<li>Iron utilization and monitoring to ensure thrifty pigs are weaned<\/li>\n<li>Transport and auditing<\/li>\n<li>Individual pig treatment<\/li>\n<li>Water quality monitoring and treatment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to all of this, a key factor that can strongly influence the success of an antibiotic free practice is communication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180614112513Greg-Wideman-Transition-to-Antibiotic-Free-Production.pdf\">Transition to Antibiotic-Free Production<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Greg Wideman, DVM Reference: Banff Pork Seminar Proceedings 2018 Summary: Antimicrobial-free is growing in demand as concern for the interplay between antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance is expressed. As a result, South West Vets&#8217; has made it their objective to best equip their clients to raise antibiotic free pigs. Good data management and performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21474","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\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21583,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21474\/revisions\/21583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}