“During winter time, the African swine fever virus may persist up to five months in the bone marrow of a wild boar's carcass”
“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”
“We plan a quarantine time of a minimum eight weeks and if we use MLV PRRS virus vaccines, we prefer around 12 weeks”
“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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“Biosecurity is the only tool we have now to protect our pigs against ASF”
“African swine fever is a very slow disease...we have the experience during outbreaks that not all pigs become infected”
“Sow farms that were virus positive when we started the programme are doing a lot better now... also, we have less airway disease in the growers and finisher pigs regarding problems that are secondary to PRRS”
“When you go over 14 live births and the sow has 12-14 functional teats, you need split-suckling protocols”