While anesthesia is not commonly used as a management tool on the farm, it can provide producers and veterinarians with additional options to deal with difficult challenges.

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The objective of an animal welfare study at Iowa State University was to compare blood cortisol levels in sows of various parities to assess painful and non-painful hoof lameness.

Free-access sow gestation stalls are designed to provide the protection of a standard stall and the behavioral freedom of a group pen. However, research is limited on actual implementation.

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Research on dominant types of rotavirus affecting swine farms in Ohio reveals that group C rotaviruses are now detected more frequently than are group A, according to the Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and...

In the largest field study of its kind, a team of University of Minnesota researchers evaluated the impact of immunization in herd closure strategies on eliminating porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus from breeding herds.

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Brachyspira, the organism responsible for swine dysentery infections, is controlled at low concentrations of tiamulin and carbadox, according to a study at Iowa State University. Control by lincomycin was observed at much higher levels. Not all...

  Typically, Haemophilus parasuis has been implicated as the main cause of polyserositis in pigs. However, in recent years, Mycoplasma hyorhinis has been identified as the causative agent in many cases.