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Topigs Norsvin Breeding company Topigs Norsvin appointed Dr Dus- tin Boler as meat scientist. His responsibilities will en- compass research and de- velopment activities, sales and marketing support, customer technical service, and allied industry support. His focus will be on the North American market.
Norel Norel hired Darko Nikolic as the company’s new area man- ager South East Europe. He will be located in Belgrade, Ser- bia, and responsible for Albania, North Macedonia, Montene- gro, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania.
Zinpro Zinpro has promoted Tim Horne to sales manager – Europe and Republic of South Africa (RSA). In this newly created position, Horne will direct and over- see the company’s Europe and RSA sales team.
Nooyen René Weernink has started as sales manager South America for flooring specialists Nooyen. In that position he is part of the sales team and responsible for the sales activ- ities in South America and the USA.
PigChamp Swine management software company PigChamp, based in Ames, IA, United States, appointed its 2018 summer in- tern, Hailey Arthur. She will become the company’s sales and support specialist.
Hamlet Protein Hamlet Protein has appointed Erik Visser, 49, as Chief Ex- ecutive Officer effective June 1, 2019. Erik Visser replaces Søren Munch, who left as CEO. Prior to joining Hamlet Protein, Mr Visser worked for Provimi, Nutriad and Adisseo.
MSD/Merck
MSD Animal Health announced new leadership of Antelliq and its brands of Allflex Livestock Intelligence, Sure Petcare and Biomark. Brian Bolton has been appointed president and CEO of Antelliq. Jeroen van de Ven, DVM, MBA, has been appointed COO of Antelliq. David Hallas, DVM, MBA, has been appointed managing director for the com- bined Sure Petcare and HomeAgain businesses.
32 ▶PIG PROGRESS | Volume 35, No. 6, 2019 Dynamics of PCV3 followed in Spain
Researchers in Spain have published a longitudinal study assessing the infec- tion dynamics of Porcine Circovirus 3 (PCV3) in healthy commercial farms in Spain. The study was carried out by re- searchers connected to the research cen- tre CReSA-IRTA, who published it in the Veterinary Record. The study assesses the dynamics of PCV3 infection in farms of healthy pigs without clinical symptoms. The researchers detected viral genome in all farms and all tested ages. Some of the animals had an apparent long-term infection during four to 23 weeks. The phylogenetic analysis showed that the eight partial sequences obtained spe- cifically from six animals had a high
similarity at the nucleotide level, also when compared with genomes availa- ble in the GenBank dataset. The researchers wrote: “Although a par- ticular general infection dynamics pat- tern was not able to be ascertained, the obtained data confirmed that PCV3 cir- culated in the chosen clinically healthy farms at all tested ages and most pigs were infected during their lifetime. Al- though PCV3 did not appear to be linked with any specific age.” Until 2015, only two pig-related species of PCV were known: PCV1, a non-path- ogenic virus, and PCV2, which is con- trolled by vaccination. PCV3 was discovered in 2016 in the USA.
Detection of ear biting in pigs using PLF
There is potential for the development of a Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) tool for the early detection of ear biting in pigs. That became clear after ground breaking work from a team of Irish and Belgian researchers, whose paper was recently published in the journal Ap- plied Animal Behaviour Science. The sci- entists were connected to the Irish re- search institute Teagasc and to KU Leuven in Belgium. In their abstract, the researchers wrote that behaviours such as tail and ear bit- ing can occur in intensive farms as the
animals have difficulty coping with the environment and their inability to per- form natural behaviours. However, much less is known about the aetiology of ear biting behaviour compared to tail biting behaviour. Application of new intervention strate- gies may be the key to deal with this welfare issue. PLF allows farmers to im- prove their management practices with the use of advanced technologies. “Ex- ploring the behaviour is the first step to identify reliable indicators for the development of such a tool.”
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PHOTO: TOPIGS NORSVIN
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