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Swine Health - General Disease
Comparison of the efficacy of sow vaccination versus piglet vaccination for PCV2 and evaluation of the impact of revaccination with a homologous PCV2 vaccine
The objectives of this study were (1) to compare the efficacy of two different PCV2 vaccination protocols (maternally derived antibodies versus piglet vaccination) in a conventional PCV2 growing pig...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Net energy of three sources of distillers dried grains with solubles fed to growing and finishing pigs
In North America, when energy is considered in formulation of swine diets, it is usually expressed as either digestible energy (DE) or metabolizable energy (ME). An energy system includes energy...
Swine Health - General Disease
Molecular Epidemiology of Porcine Circovirus in the US Swine Herd
Data from 187 finishing herds shows that PCV2 is nearly universally present as an active infection in finishing herds, often at moderate to high levels of viremia in the presence of anti-capsid...
Animal Well-being
Impact of Auto-sort Systems on Pig Welfare
A series of studies were designed to determine any impact of various autosort layouts on pig productivity and welfare. To accomplish this, Exp 1, we compared food-court, fast-lane, and water-pen...
Animal Well-being
An Industry Education Program for Understanding the Basics of the Space Allocation Debate in Pig Production
The efficient use of facility space for swine production has been a key economic and production issue since the introduction of confinement production facilities. Stocking density decisions have...
Public Health - Worker Health & Safety
Pork Industry Health and Safety Training – Seminars and Online Courses
This program was designed to provide training in occupational health and safety to managers and workers while enhancing the National Pork Board’s occupational health and safety materials...
Swine Health - General Disease
Determination of the amount of PCV2 needed for intrauterine transmission and assessment of effect of PCV2 exposure (natural and vaccine) prior to insemination
Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is associated with reproductive failure in pregnant female pigs; however, the role of PCV2 in semen has not been elucidated. To determine the significance of semen in...
Swine Health - General Disease
Head-to-head comparison of the level of protection and duration of immunity induced by different commercial and an autogenous PCV2 vaccine
The study objectives were to compare the duration of immunity of commercially available, one and two dose, killed porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) vaccines. Sixty, 3.5-week-old pigs were randomly...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Influence of Rapid Introduction and Removal of Dietary DDGS on Pig Performance and Carcass Characteristics
Pork producers and nutritionists want to use feed ingredients that will optimize pig performance at the lowest cost. Inclusion of DDGS in the diets for grower-finisher pigs may be economical at...
Swine Health - General Disease
The effect of cross-fostering on the transfer of cellular and humoral maternal immunity to Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
Enzootic pneumonia resulting from Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections is an important disease to the US swine industry. Antibodies and immune cells specific to this agent can be detected...
Swine Health - PRRS
Development of a New Generation of Antisense Antiviral Drug against PRRSV
This project has explored a novel class of antiviral drugs to suppress PRRSV replication. These drugs were designed on the basis of PRRSV genomic sequences. Their specific binding to the virus genome...
Animal Science - Swine Nutrition
Evaluation of crude glycerin in swine
The objective of the proposed research was to determine the variation in metabolizable energy (ME) content of crude glycerin samples from a several biodiesel production facilities using different...
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