High health pig systems

Date: 06 June ‘05; 8:30 - 12:30 hours
Chairperson: Chadd (UK)

• Theatre

• High health pig systems - The Danish approach (Bækbo, P.)

• Porcine embryo vitrification and transfer: a way to maintain high health (Cuello, C., J.M. Vázquez, J. Roca and E.A. Martínez)

• Mortality pattern and causes in crossbred pigs (Srinivasa Rao, D.)

• The relationship between birth weight, the condition of the umbilical cord and the time interval at birth (Fischer, K. and M. Wähner)

• Relation between (the breeding value for) weaning survival and periparturient sow behaviour (Uitdehaag, K.A., E.D. Ekkel, E. Kanis, E.F. Knol and T. van der Lende)

• Development of a protocol to record functional traits and inherited disorders affecting welfare in pigs (Fernàndez, X., J. Tibau, J. Piedrafita and E. Fàbrega)

• Effects of rearing system on performance, animal welfare and meat quality in two pig genotypes (Lebret, B., M.C. Meunier-Salaün, A. Foury, E. Dransfield and J.-Y. Dourmad)

• The influence of rearing conditions on meat and back fat quality of large white breed (Holló, G., J. Seregi, J. Csapó, E. Varga-Visi and I. Holló)

• Effects of reduced phosphorus levels during growth and pregnancy on leg weakness, osteochondrosis and longevity in sows (Jørgensen, B. and H.D. Poulsen)

Poster

• Effect of zeolite clinoptilolite on biochemical and hematological parameters in weaned piglets fed with increased zearalenone level (Speranda, M., B. Liker, T. Speranda, V. Seric, Z. Antunovic, D. Sencic, Z. Grabarevic and Z. Steiner)