Episodes
Episode 17 - ASF: Essential steps to beat the persistent threat
- 20 minutes
- Podcast in Episodes
- Zygmunt Pejsak
“During winter time, the African swine fever virus may persist up to five months in the bone marrow of a wild boar's carcass”
Episode 16 - ASF: Spreading in Europe through wild boar
- 30 minutes
- Podcast in Episodes
- Zygmunt Pejsak
“The direction of wild boar movement in general is to the Western territories...it means from Russia to Belarus, from Belarus to Poland, from Poland to Germany and probably will be from Germany to France”
Episode 15 - New gilts: Steering the health profile of herd replacements
- 35 minutes
- Podcast in Episodes
- Kristian Havn
“We plan a quarantine time of a minimum eight weeks and if we use MLV PRRS virus vaccines, we prefer around 12 weeks”
Episode 14 - Preparing gilts for breeding: The road to top performance
- 35 minutes
- Podcast in Episodes
- Clayton Johnson
“Gilts can be the best reproductive performers on the farm in terms of conception rates and farrowing rates --- if they are not the best, there’s an opportunity there for us to go work on”
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Episode 13 - Preparing gilts for breeding: Development and acclimation
- 30 minutes
- Podcast in Episodes
- Clayton Johnson
“It’s important that pathogen exposure occurs early enough in the gilt’s life so she recovers from the infection, stops shedding the pathogen and is immunocompetent at the time of farrowing”
Episode 12 - African swine fever: The links to feed
- 24 minutes
- Podcast in Episodes
- Tomasz Trela
“It is a totally new challenge for the feed industry --- a number of feed components can be quite a good environment for the virus, which can stay infectious for a longer time”
Episode 11 - African swine fever: Operating a farm in an infected zone
- 21 minutes
- Podcast in Episodes
- Tomasz Trela
“ASF virus is very resistant to physical and chemical factors, this means it can stay infective for weeks or even months”
Episode 10 - Biosecurity: Online pathway to Pathogen Stop
- 26 minutes
- Podcast in Episodes
- Kristian Havn
“We have re-introductions of diseases in some of our farms every year, so something must be able to improve biosecurity…our plan is to evaluate all 1,220 farms that we consult”