Quality and Expertise in Animals and Biological Materials Since 1990
By: Michael Pierdon, DVM Four Star Porcine Veterinary Services
Comprehensive herd health management involves the prevention of diseases from entering the herd, a vaccination program within the herd to prevent disease should it occur, a reliable monitoring system and the proper management practices to maintain the desired health status.
Personnel. The farm manager and all employees are highly trained professionals who have the experience and training to carry out all management practices at the facility which includes: feeding, breeding and all management practices that relate to prevention and control of porcine diseases. The final objective of these practices is for the production of the healthiest and most vigorous swine possible for research markets.
All in/all out. Pigs are moved as groups during each stage of production in an “all in/all out” manner. This means that all pigs that start out as a group within a pen or area stay together for the duration of their cycle. Each group is moved into a clean sterile environment and remains together until that production cycle is over with no other pigs being added to the group. Once all pigs are moved out of an area, it is cleaned, disinfected and allowed to remain dormant for several days before the next production group enters. Production groups are always kept separate from each other. This practice tends to break disease cycles, reduce stress and increase feed efficiency and vigor in the animals.
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