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Zoetis On 1 January 2020, Kristin Peck succeeded Juan Ramón Alaix as CEO of Zoetis. She has also joined the company’s board of di- rectors. Alaix had been CEO of Zoetis since its formation in 2012; he retired as CEO but will act as an advisor for one more year.
Kanters
Liquid nutritional supplement producer Kanters, based in the Netherlands, recently welcomed Laure van de Griend. She has been working in a marketing and sales support role since January 2020.
Zinpro From 1 January 2020, Rob Sheffer has been President and CEO of Zinpro. In his new role he will be tasked with overall management and leadership of the organ- isation. Sheffer joined the company as chief operating officer (COO) in June 2017. He succeeded Bill Scrimgeour, who has retired. The company has also announced the ad- dition of marketing professionals Sara Drake and Kelly Morrison to its team. Drake is a senior graphic design spe- cialist; Morrison is a global digital marketing specialist.
Wageningen Livestock Research Gert van Duinkerken has been appointed business unit manager of Wageningen Livestock Research in the Nether- lands from 1 January 2020. In that function he succeeds Annie de Veer.
Hamlet Protein Glenn Ferriol joined Dan- ish-based animal nutrition company Hamlet Protein on 1 January 2020 as area sales manager for the Philip- pines, Malaysia and Indone- sia. He is based in Taguig City, the Philippines.
Swinco Dutch animal nutrition consultancy company Swinco ap- pointed Mieke Bruinsma as an administrative and logis- tics employee. She brings over 25 years of experience, having worked for a large animal nutrition company.
24 ▶PIG PROGRESS | Volume 36, No. 1, 2020 PCV4 virus identified in Chinese pigs
A new variety of Porcine circovirus was identified in pigs with severe clinical disease in China’s Hunan province in April 2019. The virus had a distinct re- lationship with earlier versions of cir- covirus. Therefore the scientists, associ- ated with the Hunan University and Zhejiang University, China; and the University of Edinburgh, UK, classified it as Porcine circovirus type 4 (PCV4), in a publication in the peer-reviewed journal Transboundary and Emerging
Diseases. They wrote: “PCV4 shows the highest genomic identity to mink cir- covirus (66.9%) and has identities of 43.2%-51.5% to the other PCV genomes.” Three earlier PCV species had been identified within the genus Circovirus. PCV1 is non-pathogenic; PCV2 was a major problem in the swine industry about 10-15 years ago; PCV3 was iden- tified in 2017 by researchers from the USA and Uruguay.
Straw increases feed intake in growers
Providing straw to grow-finisher pigs appears to have a positive effect on their feed intake. That was the conclusion of work by researchers at Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen, both in Denmark. The study was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Animal. The researchers stated that prior to this study, the effects of straw on pig per- formance had been unclear. In two steps they investigated the relation- ship between the amount of straw provided to pigs and how they per- formed. The set-up maintained con- stant space allowance and had controlled room temperature.
The average daily gain (ADG) increased 8.1g for every extra 100g straw added daily, resulting in 40g higher ADG when 500g of straw, compared to 10g straw, was given per pig per day. The feed conversion ratio (FCR) was not af- fected by the amount of straw provid- ed. Thus, in the range 10g to 500g, the more straw provided, the higher the daily weight gain.
As the nutritional value of straw is considered minimal, this result is likely due to improved gut health from more straw being ingested, and the increase in straw availability likely stimulates exploratory behaviour, which increas- es feed intake, or a combination of these effects.
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