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Was listening to the news this afternoon and Minette Batters was commenting on the food supply meeting at number 10. Her main point was that they were looking at ways to bring the price of food down, but it might take a while. why would the head of the Nfu think food prices coming down Is good...

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Saba Amir, IBERS, Aberystwyth University. Since the ban on the use of in-feed antibiotic growth promoters, gut health has been the focus of animal nutrition to improve performance and reduce the burden of enteric diseases A number of different feed additives, pre, probiotics and synbiotics...

Dr Craig Lewis The Genetic Technology Bill currently before Parliament could unlock the potentially paradigm shifting impacts of gene editing for farmed animals, and would give livestock agriculture the potential to address major challenges of animal health and welfare, reduce antibiotic use...

driving around local estate seems to have fields of growing pigs in them...40-50kg at a guess.....do they get taken thru to finish outside?

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The chair of the pig sector of Red Tractor, the UK’s largest food and farm standards scheme, has warned that UK farmers should take precautions against African Swine Fever (ASF). Stewart Houston said that the “highly contagious and fatal...

Well according to David Richardson anyway. Never mind their support of RT, once the NFU start pulling their finger out and working in farmers interests rather than big business then I might reconsider my lack of membership. Hopefully enough people are leaving to make NFU take note so they have...

Is there a thread on here about this already? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-63715442

Inch already this morning but definitely warmer Anyone else got some?

Reduction of piglet mortality, health problems as well as improvement of outdoor runs, system resilience and sustainability. PDF [EN] Problem There are common animal welfare challenges related to piglet mortality and health problems around weaning. Further, outdoor concrete runs in systems...

Weaning is a critical phase in intensive piglet production marked by frequent occurrence of digestive disorders posing health and economic burden. To stave off such weaning-related problems, antibiotics and supplements containing high levels of ZnO are often used. In this study, we investigated...

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We record a lot of data on our company. But which ones are important now? I want to zoom in on the piglets that become fattening pigs. These animals bring in money when sold and you prefer to sell as many good healthy animals as possible per year. We record enough data about the sows and the...

RESOURCE EXPLAINED: This FiBL handbook contains 29 factsheets created within the POWER project. It is split into chapters presented under four major themes. The first focusses on management of outdoor areas, the second on piglet welfare. The third covers ‘best practice’, illustrating how access...

Written by Megan O'Brien from Agriland Researchers around the EU have been studying how sampling saliva from piglets and sows could help farmers to target treatments and reduce anti-microbial resistance among pigs. The study which is being carried out by researchers at Teagasc, the University...

This is a thread for those who feel guilty about cluttering up dear old GUTH’s beloved price tracker with the chit chat that stop us all being that miserable our families would throw us all out to sit with the dog in the porch. All are welcome, you can even post prices if you want. The only rule...

Written by Megan O'Brien from Agriland A family of spotted pigs have been given their own reality TV series that aims to expose “the scam of teacup pigs”, that many are unaware of. Pig Little Lies is a new video series from Unchained TV in the US, that aims to expose the sale of regular...

Sows in improved pens had better locomotion scores Long-term (chronic) stress negatively impacts the health and welfare of pregnant sows. This can lead to poor sow performance, such as a reduced number of piglets produced. Chronic stress during pregnancy can also negatively impact the...

When it comes to sow comfort, it is often clear if external factors, such as heat are causing sow stress. However, stress associated with internal factors, such as reduced gut health are much harder to recognise and are often missed. Hannah Elliott, monogastric technical manager at Lallemand...

Predictions? 2019 Con 35893 60.2% Lab 11653 19.5% Lib 8807 14.8% Turnout is usually really high 70% ish Lib dems have got a hell of a mountain to climb from third place but itd be great to give boris a thrashing!!