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Producer Survey on Observed Social Cooperation, Strategies and Good Citizenship in Pigs
This survey looks at producers’ experiences regarding social behaviour in pigs, including observations of both positive (e.g. sharing space or food, protective behaviours, accessing resources) and negative behaviours (fighting). Information from the survey will help in developing research on social interactions and strategies used by pigs to improve understanding and management of group-housed sows. Click on the link below to fill out the survey. Social behaviour in group housed sows survey.
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Long-Term Feeding of Graded Levels of Deoxynivalenol in Finisher Pigs
Grains that are contaminated with mycotoxins are often downgraded for use in livestock feed. The incidence of contaminated grain is increasing, so avoiding contamination continues to become more difficult. Strategies to reduce or eliminate mycotoxins have been proposed with many that deactivate the mycotoxin through binding and are used as non-nutrient additives. Current feed additives…
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Evaluation of Temperature Conditions in Trucks During Transport of Market Pigs to Slaughter in Four Seasons
Temperature and humidity conditions vary significantly in different compartments in trucks that transport market pigs. Transportation of pigs can involve economic losses due to death, reduced meat quality and welfare concerns. More losses are reported in the summer with specific compartments being more affected. Pigs were transported for 7.5 hours in Saskatchewan to a packing…
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Benchmarking and Standardization of Swine Production Systems
Wide variations in building design, barn equipment, construction, management and other operational systems contribute to added costs and inefficiencies in hog barns. These variabilities make it difficult to develop improvement measures and they cannot be applied from barn to barn as they are all so different. There are not applicable standards to help guide producers…
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Coming Events
Industry events have taken on a virtual format this fall and winter bringing the pork industry the information that it has relied on over the years. Register today for these upcoming events.
Banff Pork Seminar
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