Today, we are sharing a recent published manuscript from a collaboration between the swine group and the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety at the University of Minnesota. The project focused on biosecurity practices from the Secure Pork Supply plan and the consistency with which they were applied on farms. The full text is available in open access on the journal Animals’ website.
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The impact of pooling on the observed microbiome profile of preweaned piglet feces
Today, we are sharing a recent publication from the Noyes lab investigating a very popular sampling technique, pooling and the impact it has on resulting microbiome profiles. The article is available in open access on Microbiology Ecology’s website.
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The following article was written by Jennifer Shike and published in Farm Journal’s magazine, PORK.
Colostrum can be the difference between life and death for a piglet. As litter size increases, colostrum intake becomes even more critical, says Bryn Anderson, a veterinary student at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine.
Continue reading “Help Piglets Thrive: High-Dose Oxytocin Allows Sows to Pass on Greater Immunity”Scoring of swine lung images: a comparison between a computer vision system and human evaluators
Today, we are bringing you a paper recently published in Veterinary Research. This collaboration between the MycoLab at the University of Minnesota, Texas A&M, HIPRA Laboratories, and the University of Barcelona aimed at comparing scoring of cranioventral pulmonary consolidation by computer vision system and by a human evaluator.
Continue reading “Scoring of swine lung images: a comparison between a computer vision system and human evaluators”Disease Surveillance Practices and Veterinary Care Use in Small-Scale Swine
In this scoping review recently published in the journal Animals, Dr. Schambow and colleagues from the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety at the University of Minnesota review veterinary use and access as well as disease surveillance practices in small swine herds across the United States.
