Animal Well-being
Pork Checkoff Research
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Animal Well-being
Use of modified rendering trailers to achieve rapid depopulation of modern sow units
The objective of this project was to establish an effective and safe method to facilitate both the depopulation of sow units and the disposal of carcasses in the face of a foreign animal disease outbreak.
Swine Health
Oral fluid sample size for FAD detection at low prevalence in large commercial pigs
This project addressed a NPB call for research on surveillance sampling methods for optimizing the detection of trade limiting foreign animal diseases within pens, barns and sites.
Swine Health - General Disease
Comparative pathogenesis of different porcine rotavirus C (RVC) genotypes and correlation between maternal immune status and RVC diarrhea prevalence in suckling piglets
Human Nutrition
Nutrient Profile Analysis of Pork and Alternative Protein Sources
Human Nutrition
Does Meal-based Enhancement of Protein Intake Augment Long-term Responses to Sarcopenic Obesity Reduction?
Swine Health - General Disease
Evaluation of the epitope driven pDNA vaccine PigMatrix EDV in the pig model as a candidate vaccine for universal flu protection
Animal Well-being
Capturing genetic potential for greater sow lifetime productivity
These findings indicate that poor survival to weaning, and lower gilt retention rates during development, are critical issues for low birth weight gilts and for gilts born to sows with a low ALBW_P....
Animal Science - Sow Lifetime Productivity
Capturing genetic potential for greater sow lifetime productivity
The results of this study indicate that birthweight, pre-weaning growth, and weaning weight of potential replacement gilts are aspects of the neonatal environment of replacement gilts that have a...
Capturing genetic potential for greater sow lifetime productivity.
These results confirm that, in a population of contemporary replacement gilts managed in a commercial farm environment, the protocol used to expose gilts to boar stimuli has a major impact on the efficiency of inducing a pubertal estrus (HNS) response.
