piglets

389: AHDB Dairy: Giving calves the best start with colostrum Written by Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board For the best possible start in life, dairy calves need quality colostrum as their first feed. This early management can affect how that calf will perform health wise, its time...

Written by Agriland Team from Agriland A £1.6 million scheme from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) to provide financial support to pig producers will be “well received”, according to the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU). DAERA has confirmed that the Exceptional...

386: AHDB Beef & Lamb: Focusing on footrot and preparing for lambing Written by Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board In this episode of the Food & Farming podcast, AHDB’s Knowledge Exchange Manager Emma Steele joins Dr Liz Nabb. They discuss the management and control of lameness in...

Anyone point me in right direction where to find iron supplements for piglets? Was thinking oral but injectable if not?

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?

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/01/24/fonterra-tells-suppliers-they-can-no-longer-kill-bobby-calves/ Interesting parallel with Arla.etc. Will this lead.to reduction of NZ dairy production? Export opportunity for UK dairy products? Discuss.

I would like others views on the reduction of Bps payments and the un fairness of this when Scottish farmers are seeing no change in their payments aswell as European countries. I am getting really annoyed at the lack of any union that is really standing up for us. The Nfu may as well be called...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The UK’s chief veterinary officer (CVO), Christine Middlemiss, has today (Tuesday, January 10) confirmed that there were five cases of Seneca Valley Virus (SVV) in pigs last year. Disease was suspected in the pigs concerned between June and...

We all know the pig boys are a bit boring and go for a commercial pink pig but which is the best breed of pig? I’ll go for the saddleback always like them to look at.

The next steps for the SFI annual health and welfare review Written by Martin Jenkins The SFI annual health and welfare review is a fully funded vet visit which farmers can receive each year. Together with co-design colleagues, I recently blogged about the co-design process behind the vet...

We’ve got an opportunity to develop a farm shop, combining it with an existing cafe which has been running for the last year about a mile from the farm.. We already produce our own organic beef, lamb and veg and my wife recently started supplying the cafe with cakes, pasties etc. My thoughts are...

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...

I'm having a spate of weird unexplainable things happening that just don't make any sense: 1) Tractor parked in a locked shed on a Friday evening. Monday morning rear tyre gone down, call the tyre fitter, blow it up so I can move it, it appears to hold OK, so use tractor. Next morning tyre...

Talk on Twitter and the farming press of the return of BPS at £80/acre!

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...

Not a joke. Woke up to two random pigs on the road. Called plod. Got them off the road and into a little pen. Two pigs, boy and girl. Friendly, will come to you and were pleased to get some water. Notified local FB groups. Local APHA said ring trading standards. Local TS seems to be...

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...