Swine Disorders guide

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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

Author(s): John Carr
Release date: 2014
ISBN: 978-84-941975-8-1
Pages: 116
Binding: Hard cover, wire-o
Format: 11 x 20

This guide is a collection of key data and practical recommendations that turn it into a reference handbook for pig farmers, technicians and workers on swine operations. With the help of the tables and diagrams included in this guide, the people in charge of caring for pigs will be able to search for the standard parameters relating to production, pig flow and the main clinical signs of swine diseases. In addition, the control lists may be used as a starting point for the identification of disease outbreaks on pig production and breeding farms. All this information is completed with recommendations from John Carr, an international swine consultant.

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Dr. John Carr

John started learning the ropes about pigs at the age of 11. He qualified as a veterinarian in 1982 by the University of Liverpool. After 5 years in general practice he returned to university to complete a Leverhulme residency in pigs and a PhD in urinary tract problems of pigs at Liverpool, where he specialized in microbiology and pathology.

He has taught production medicine to veterinarians and farmers throughout the world through positions at several universities in the UK -Liverpool and Royal Veterinary College, London, and in the US -North Carolina and Iowa State- and in Western Australia at Murdoch. John runs a consultancy practice with clients in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. John specialises in maintaining the health of pigs through promoting excellence in stockmanship and production practices while controlling the cost of production. He has published several books and more than 200 refereed and non refereed articles.

1. Reproduction issues
	Enhancing litter size
	Courtship sequence
	Signs of oestrus
	Reasons for missed heats
	Analysis of the farrowing rate
	Pregnancy diagnosis
	Foetal age estimation
	Weaning to breeding interval
	2^nd litter size drop
	Breeding calendar
	Pig flow idealised

2. Disorders of the pig
	Clinical signs for stockpeople
	What are the major clinical signs?
	Health alarm list
	Compromised pig decision tree
	Euthanasia methods
	Disorders of pigs with age
	Checklist for the farrowing area – indoors
	Checklist for the farrowing area – outdoors
	Checklist for the nursery
	Checklists for the grow/finish area
	Checklist for the breeding/gestation area
	Notifiable diseases
	Zoonotic diseases
	Protocol to follow if you suspect an exotic disease

3. General ideas
	Tail biting and other vices
	Pre-weaning Scour protocols
	Post-weaning scour protocols
	Meningitis – Streptococcus suis investigation
	Post-weaning feeding enhancement
	APP – Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae investigation
	Gilt litters vs. sow litter expectations
	Cross-suckling
	Enhancing piglet weaning weights
	Forward fostering routines
	Nursery patterns and consequences
	Factors affecting the yield of pig meat
	What is a P2 measurement
	Dead weight to live weight conversion
	Carbon footprint
	Manager’s weekly report
	Manager’s timetable

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