Prairie Swine Centre along with our sponsors, PIC and Zoetis, recently held producer meetings via Zoom on July 8 & 9. This year's meeting was broken into two days - Day 1 presentations included a number of interesting topics, including:
Feeding for Health – Can we Adjust Diets to Create a More Robust Pig? - Dan Columbus, Prairie Swine Centre
Vaccines in Practice - Understanding and Optimizing Your Vaccines - Jessica Law, Prairie Swine Health Services.
Prairie Swine Centre along with our sponsors, PIC and Zoetis, recently held producer meetings via Zoom on July 8 & 9. This year's meeting was broken into two days - Day 2 presentations included a number of interesting topics, including:
The Role of Diet in GHG Output from Swine Facilities - Denise Beaulieu, University of Saskatchewan
Breeding for Pig Robustness - Saskia Bloemhof-Abma, PIC
How Does Transport Influence the Welfare and Productivity of Weaned Piglets? - Yolande Seddon / Giuliana Miguel-Pacheco, University of Saskatchewan
WATER INTAKE - Recommended Flow Rates & Nipple Height
Ensuring adequate water intake is essential to pig performance, especially during hot humid summer months. Water intake is typically two to three times that of feed intake, thus ensuring your system is operating properly will save you money in water waste and ensure pigs performance is optimized.
Motivated for Movement - What is the cost of sow exercise?
Preliminary sow performance measures suggest exercising stall-housed gestating sows for 10 minutes, once per week has minimal effects on the productivity of younger sows, but may have a positive effect on older parity sows – increasing the number of live born and reducing stillborns. With productivity effects limited to a portion of the sow herd,…
