Animal Well-being
Optimized alternative housing and management strategies enhance sow well-being
January 10, 2012By Janeen L. Salak-Johnson PhD
These data provide scientific support that the type of individual stall a sows is housed in for the 1st 30 days prior to being moved to...
Pork Safety - Pre-Harvest
Application of a novel inhibition mechanism to control E. coli O157:H7 and other non-O157:H7 pathogenic E. coli.
January 5, 2012By Douglas Call
Enterohemorrhagic and exotoxigenic E. coli (EHEC and ETEC) pose a variety of animal health and food safety challenges for the food animal industry. E. coli F4 is an ETEC pathogen that is an...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Interactive effects of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and housing system on sow performance and longevity
December 31, 2011By Lee J. Johnston
Background: Use of DDGS in diets for growing swine has been the focus of much research effort in the past 5 – 7 years with little attention paid to DDGS use in diets for breeding females....
Swine Health - General Disease
The efficacy of sow vaccination with commercial PCV2 vaccines and an experimental live PCV1-2 product
December 6, 2011By Tanja Opriessnig
Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is associated with reproductive failure in the field and because of this PCV2 vaccines are now being used in some breeding herds. Research has demonstrated that PCV2...
Pork Safety - Post-Harvest
Additional features to the porcine 3D model to teach the sub-primal and retail cuts of the pork carcass
December 1, 2011By Dr. Steve Jones
Increasing demand for pork requires that new uses for existing underutilized muscles in the pork carcass be developed into new and novel products. Much of pork is purchased in the form of...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of novel mucosal vaccines for the control of PRRSV outbreaks
November 29, 2011By Renukaradhya Gourapura
Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is an economically important chronic viral disease of pigs. Available PRRS virus (PRRSV) vaccines are not completely protective to control the...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Detection of tetracyclines and tetracycline resistant bacteria in soils under long-term swine effluent application
November 28, 2011By Inna Popova
These days, there are increasing concerns that the use of veterinary antibiotics could enhance persistence of antibiotic resistant bacteria...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Towards controlling antimicrobial resistance in swine production systems: harnessing the paradoxical effects of micro-minerals and feed-grade antimicrobials on resistance in enteric bacteria
November 23, 2011By H. Morgan Scott
The present study was aimed at determining the effects of supplemental feed grade antimicrobials on the selection and co-selection of...
Pork Safety
Chlortetracycline, Oxytetracycline, Tetracycline and Bacitracin Tissue Residue Studies in Swine Conducted in Reference to Foreign Export Markets
November 3, 2011By DACVCP|Mike Apley DVM|PhD
The objective of this study was to describe tissue residues of chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, and tetracycline in slaughter hogs and also bacitracin in cull sows. For the tetracyclines, the...
Public Health - Antibiotics & Resistance
Occurrence and Movement of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria and Resistance Genes in Tile-Drained Agricultural Fields Receiving Swine Manure Application
October 24, 2011By Michelle Soupir
The use of antibiotics by the swine industry to increase production efficiency and treat disease is thought to contribute to antibiotic resistance in the environment. When manure from...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Regulation of Amino Acid Transport Efficiency by the Porcine Mammary Gland
October 14, 2011By Nathalie L. Trottier
Industry Summary: Modern swine production systems require highly productive animals. Thus, continued development of nutritional strategies to improve milk production and litter weight gain is...
Environment - Air
Effects of inclusion of corn distillers dried grains with solubles in the diet of finishing pigs and gestating sows on nutrient excretion and gaseous emissions
October 12, 2011By Scott Carter
Three experiments were conducted to determine the effects of DDGS on nutrient excretion and gaseous emissions by swine. In Exp. 1, a total of 80 pigs initially weighing 36.8 kg were blocked by...
