swine webinars Webinar “Gut Health”
The first speaker was Dr Linda Peeters, swine vet at GD An- imal Health. She discussed the diagnostic approach to diar- rhoea, and talked about clinical inspection, sample collection, laboratory tests, treatment and prevention. She first outlined the different types of swine diarrhoea and how to tackle them with the diagnostic approach, which includes a clinical inspection and analysis of the farm. She also discussed Sal- monella infections in pigs. The next speaker was Wouter de Bruin, from Phileo by Le- saffre, who focused on improving the gut health of small pig- lets. He introduced the benefits of feeding the probiotic yeast Actisaf 47 to sows in order to help with the issue. De Bruin said: “Feeding Actisaf to sows benefits the offspring, enhan- ces colostrum composition and stimulates immune transfer resulting in sows being able to feed larger litters properly.” The last speaker was Bart Hillen, on behalf of DuPont, who discussed optimising the nutribiotic state in pigs at a time when producers face the need to reduce antibiotics as well as zinc. Hillen highlighted three major pillars that define the health status and performance of pigs: nutrition, gut health
Webinar “Gut Health Piglets”
The second Gut Health webinar zoomed in on newborn pig- lets. Returning to this session was Dr Linda Peeters of GD Animal Health, who detailed problems with diarrhoea in piglets. She said: “Once a diagnosis is made we can look at treatment and prevention methods for neonatal diarrhoea to include symptomatic therapy, and also look at prevention methods such as biosecurity and colostrum management.” Next speaker was Dr Sofia Rengman, global technical manager at Perstorp. Dr Rengman highlighted how and why the body condition of the sow was important to piglet de- velopment. She said, “The increased number of piglets born per litter is only of economic benefit if they reach weaning age and if the sow and weaners remain in good health.” She said sow body condition is a key factor for optimal repro- ductive performance and to support large piglet litters. The last speaker was Dr Daniël Šperling of Ceva Animal Health, who looked at coccidiosis and iron deficiency anae- mia (IDA). While introducing Forceris, he highlighted that coccidiosis is an infection of the small intestine and affects the performance of the young pig. He said: “Current
The line-up, from left to right: Wouter de Bruin, Phileo by Lesaffre; Dr Linda Peeters, GD Animal Health; Vincent ter Beek, host; Bart Hillen, Dupont.
and microbiome. After introducing DuPont products, Hillen concluded: “It’s always important to try to keep your animal in that favourable state, and if you want to do that you have to respect all three of the pillars, not just one.”
The line-up, from left to right: Dr Linda Peeters, GD Animal Health; Dr Sofia Reng- man, Perstorp; Dr Daniël Šperling, Ceva Animal Health; Vincent ter Beek, host.
controls based on oral treatment seems to be less effective, especially if the timing is not perfect. We believe diagnostics is key, and frequent diagnostics of the farm is really important to understand what happened.”
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