Optimising pig herd health and production (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Maes, Dominiek; Segalés, Joaquim

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Current information. Knowledge with excellent science. Practical and hands-on tips. Distinguished, world-renowned experts as authors. This book has of all these. I believe it will be milestone for the swine industry going forward." Professor Satoshi Otake, DVM PhD, Swine Extension & Consulting, Inc., Japan

"The focus and inter-relatedness of the topics, the strategic selection of authors and the global understanding of the editors of this textbook together promises to deliver a collection of transformational, forward looking perspectives on current and future innovations and best practices for the most progressive pork producers and the veterinary practitioners, nutritionists, engineers, academicians and others that serve throughout the pork production chain." Patrick G. Halbur, Professor and Chair, Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine Executive Director, ISU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, USA

Whilst it can mean enhanced biosecurity, intensive and globalised pig production (based on a narrowing genetic base) also potentially increases the risk of disease and its spread. It has been estimated that diseases can lower pig production efficiency by 10-15%, though financial losses can be much greater.

Optimising pig herd health and production highlights the need to develop more preventative measures that can be implemented to tackle the increasing threat of disease. The book addresses recent developments in disease prevention, focussing on how farmers and producers can utilise feed management and housing to optimise pig health, as well as the role of vaccine development in preventing the onset of endemic and emerging diseases in pigs.

Through highlighting the importance of understanding and identifying disease, the book showcases how our understanding of the mechanisms of transmission for some of the key porcine viral and bacterial diseases can be applied to optimise pig herd health and production.

Edited by two leading experts renowned for their research in respiratory diseases of pigs, Optimising pig herd health and production will be a standard reference for university and other researchers in swine and veterinary science, producers, governments and private sector agencies involved in supporting pig production.

Dr Dominiek Maes is Professor of Porcine Health Management in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Ghent University, Belgium.

Dr Joaquim Segalés is Professor in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Researcher at the Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (IRTA-CReSA), Spain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786768858
• Artikelnr.: 66390695