Limiting Disease Through Genetic Selection

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Outline:
Host responses
Selection for disease resistance
• Natural selection
• Genomic selection
Current research
• Application of swine genomics to improve swine health and welfare

SkSymp2013 (HARDIING Genomics Health)

Lewisville Group Housing

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This presentation outlines the group housing system used at Lewisville including PROS an CONS of straw group housing with ESF.

Lewisville – Group Sow Housing – Panel – Ted Ratte – Nov 2016

Trickle Feeding Loose Housing for Gestation Sows

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This presentation outlines the transition at Perkins farms from gestation stalls to loose housing and trickle feeding. This trickle feeding system was managed in a way that the sows eating the fastest would finish their feed at the same time as the slowest sows.

Perkins Farms Trickle Feeding Sow Loose Housing Sow System -T Kennelly

Matador farms sow housing system

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This presentation outlines the specific way this farm is set up.

Matador Farms – Group Sow Housing – Sam Waldner

Prairie Swine Centre Antibiotic Benchmarking Project

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• Antibiotic benchmarking projects – 2013/2015
• Data

• All antibiotic used for a year
• Feed, water & injectable
• All stages of production
• All types of antibiotics
• Treatment records
• Farm inventory at various stage

Summary

• 2013 antibiotic use at PSC low
• Were able to reduce further, without compromising welfare

Henry Gauvreau – Prairie Swine Centre Antibiotic Benchmark- Nov 2016

Biological Limitations in Pig Production – Genomics

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This presentation discusses the future of genomics in the nucleus herd and the addition of gene editing to promote alleles already present in the population.

Abe Huisman – Biological Limitations in Pig Production-2016-11-15

Importance of “Gut Health” in Weaned pigs

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Summary
• Microbiome
– Abundant, diverse and dynamic
– Getting good at determining inventory and major factors affecting the inventory
• Gut Health
– Balance of “Good, Bad and Ugly ” microbiome members
– Efficient Digestion/Absorption
– Effective Barrier Function

• Challenge:
– Employ the tools now available to establish who are the good and the bad in the microbiome?
– Can this knowledge be used to establish management and nutritional strategies to improve production performance and resistance to enteric infection.

Andrew Van Kessel – Importance of Gut Health in Weaned Pigs-Nov 2016

Vaccines and our social license to produce pork

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Summary & conclusions
 Direct relationship between antibiotic use and drug resistance.
Few new products are anticipated in the future.
 Vaccine usage will and should increase on farms as long as the
vaccines remain effective.
 Increased vaccine use should help to build social licence, but
some consumers are reluctant to eat pork from vaccinated hogs.
 More research is needed to develop effective vaccines for
economically important diseases (today and in the future).
 Decision making on large and small farms should not be
disconnected from the social licence to raise pork.

John Harding – Vaccines and our Social License to Produce Pork-Nov 2016

Full Value Pigs™ Profit Optimization

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Summary
• Full Value Pigs – Goal is to maximize MOFC
• Cumulative Feed Efficiency vs Marginal Feed Efficiency
• Profit Optimization – need to adjust with market
conditions
• Variation: By reducing variation we can target a more
profitable weight.
• Single pig models do not take into account your current
weights or your variation in weight

Donald Down – Elanco – Full Value Pigs_Profit Optimization Final

Pork raised without antibiotics

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This presentation discusses managing disease, alternatives feed additives and marketing for the RWA program.

Pork Raised Without Antibiotics – Shawn Davidson, Davidson Swine Health