Three experiments were conducted to investigate the implications of replacing farrowing crates with an alternative housing system from 3 days postpartum until weaning.

The interaction between dietary Arginine content and ZnO supplementation may play a negative impact on the antioxidant capacity and inflammatory response in weanling pigs.

The results will help in the design and implementation of early detection, prevention, and control strategies for one of the most devastating diseases affecting the swine industry in the U.S.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of the weaned recipients' parity on fertility and prolificacy following NsDU-ET.

Increase crude protein level in lactating diet may enhance milk quality and improve sow and litter performance in high productive sows.

UCP1 KI pigs are a potentially valuable resource for agricultural production through their combination of cold adaptation with reduced fat deposition.

In late 2015, an avian-origin H4N6 influenza A virus was isolated from pigs in the United States.

The use of digestible rather than total amino acid in diet formulation clearly improve N retention and reduces N excretion.

This study assessed the efficacy of two different Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae vaccination programmes in relation to the time of weaning.

EP-like lesions and pleuritis are routinely identified in slaughter pigs in England. EP-like lesions and pleuritis are significantly associated with a reduction in carcass weight. Endemic pig respiratory diseases remain economically important.

Environmental impact of heavy pig may be reduced by lowering CP content diets with balanced AA profile without affection ham quality.

Sows can exhibit clear preferences for enrichment type, with the sows interacting with the rope significantly more often throughout the study, at each sampling hour.

Sperm motility, morphology and three seminal plasma proteins were positively associated with heterospermic boar fertility.

Dietary electrolyte balance ranging between 166 and 250 mEq/kg may promote a proper growth rate and nutrient digestibility in weanling pigs.

Isolation and propagation of the pathogen in cell culture resulted in discovery of a novel swine enteric alphacoronavirus (tentatively named SeACoV) related to the bat coronavirus HKU2.

Influenza is a costly disease for pig producers and understanding its epidemiology is critical to control it.

The SID Lys:ME ratio during lactation depends on a milk yield and the body weight of the sow.

Provision of environmental enrichment and herbal compounds may reduce stress in current commercial pig husbandry systems.

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of vaccination against PCV2 in a sub-clinically infected, high-health finishing herd in terms of viral load in serum, feed conversion ratio and antimicrobial treatments.

Tail docking using either clippers or cautery results in neuroma formation, thus having the potential to affect long-term pig welfare.

The effect of week after weaning had highly significant influences on tail lesions.

Formulating with high amylose content cereals may improve pig performance and carcass and meat quality at slaughter.

In practice, delaying pigs from the normal production flow translates into higher feeding costs, increase number of days to slaughter and increased labour requirements reducing production efficiency for the pig operation.

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of a subclinical inflammation on the pubertal development of boars and hence on fat androstenone.

The treatment of DDGS with fiber degrading enzymes my improve dietary nutrient availability and improve performance in growing pigs.

Besides dosing factors, epidemiological factors (such as number of competing strains and bacterial excretion) influenced resistance development and need to be considered further in relation to optimal treatment strategies.

Here we describe a new LAV candidate with unique cross-protective abilities: BA71ΔCD2. Thus, inoculation of BA71ΔCD2 protected pigs not only against the experimental challenge with BA71, the virulent parental strain, but also against heterologous viruses, including Georgia 2007/1, the genotype II strain of ASFV currently circulating in East Europe.

Multi-enzyme supplementation may become a successful strategy to replace antibiotics in weanling diets.

The first outbreaks of SVV infection in Brazil were reported in 2014. However, it was not known whether the virus was circulating in Brazilian pig herds before this year.

An effective gilt acclimation program should ideally reduce M. hyopneumoniae shedding at first farrowing. The aim of this study was to identify current acclimation strategies for M. hyopneumoniae in Europe.

Effect of feeding time and frequency during gestation does not affect farrowing performance.

The unexpected frequency of viral exchange between commercial and exhibition swine raises questions about the understudied interface between these populations.

The aim of the present study was to investigate how piglets’ use of a creep area is affected by using radiant heat compared to an incandescent light bulb.

Lysine deficient diets at the end of the fattening period may promote intramuscular fat deposition affecting fatty acid composition.

There are only few data on the persistence and transmission of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) of the clonal complex (CC) 398 among veterinarians and their household members.

The effect of dietary fats differing in fatty acid (FA) composition on the metabolism of saturated FA (SFA) and monounsaturated FA (MUFA) in growing pigs was investigated.

The α-ketoglutarate supplementation may affect intestinal microbiota promoting SCFA production in the intestine.

Here, we describe the PRRS epidemic in Chile between October 2013 and April 2015, and we studied the origins and spread of PRRSV throughout the country.

Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV), Porcine Delta Corona Virus (PDCoV), and Transmissible Gastroenteritis Virus (TGEV) are major threats to swine health and contaminated feed plays a role in virus transmission.

The development of piglet immune system under vaccination against PRRSV it is not improved by the use of probiotics and prebiotics or colostrum.

Weaning stress accompanied by outburst of aggression is a critical point in pig production as it compromises piglets’ welfare and leads to poor growth rate and health problems. Therefore, a weaning methods to smoothen the lactation–weaning transition are of great importance.

Guided interventions as a team effort of farmer and herd veterinarian/other advisors have shown to be a promising method in the reduction of antimicrobial usage in pig production.

High feeding level during the wean-to-oestrus may increase farrowing rate but also may increase stillborn rate and reduce piglet birth weight.

Influenza A viruses (IAVs) are endemic in swine and represent a public health risk. However, there is limited information on the genetic diversity of swine IAVs within farrow-to-wean farms, which is where most pigs are born.

Sodium butyrate supplementation in finishing diets may reduce Salmonella carriage, shedding and seroprevalence in commercial conditions.

The researchers developed a single-tube, rapid rtPCR that is capable of detecting 10 copies of PRV glycoprotein B ( gB) DNA per 20-µL total volume reaction.

Dietary sugar cane extract supplementation may promote enhanced oxidative stability and improve meat quality in growing finishing pigs.

According to the results, the optimal density was 1.2 m²/pig considering welfare and building utilization.

Although further investigation and refinement of the sampling method is needed, results indicate that snout wipes will facilitate convenient and undisruptive IAV surveillance in pigs at agricultural fairs.

Fermented soybean meal may become a suitable and economic protein source for weanling diets according nutrient digestibility and intestinal health.

Sow laminitis may frequently occur, causing production of low quality hoof horn.

Arginine and other amino supplementation in gestating gilts improve farrowing and litter performance in low prolificity sows (≤14 total piglets born).

Farms with appropriate management, feeding and housing conditions have reduced levels of mounting and aggressive behaviour.

Fine grinding improves feed efficiency for meal but not for pelleted diets although pelleting improves average daily gain in growing pigs.

This assessment reflects the current situation and should be repeated if pleuromutilin consumption increases substantially, resulting in increased prevalence of mobile, easily transmissible resistance mechanisms.

Fiber coming from wheat bran has higher negative impact on protein and fat digestibility than soybean hulls in growing pigs.

The need for developing PCV2-specific ELISA methods is urgent to evaluate PCV2 antibody level in exclusion of PCV1 antibody interference after PCV2 vaccination.

Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 (LA-MRSA CC398) is causing an increasing number of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) in Denmark and other European countries with industrial pig production. Yet, its impact on MRSA bloodstream infections (BSIs) has not been well studied.

The use of purified pig immunoglobulins may clearly reduce diarrhea at similar extend than ZnO in weanling pigs.

A novel pestivirus species was discovered in a piglet-producing farm in Austria during virologic examinations of congenital tremor cases. The emergence of this novel pestivirus species, provisionally termed Linda virus, in domestic pigs may have implications for classical swine fever virus surveillance and porcine health management.