Health management on farm level

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1 Health management on farm level England, BPEX, March 2012 Mart Smolders MS Schippers Division Pigs Netherlands

2 Mart Smolders 34 years old Graduating Agricultural High School Research manager VIC Sterksel General manager VIC Sterksel 2012-?? Division manager Pigs MS Schippers NL Short introduction VIC Sterksel, Part Wageningen University MS Schippers

3 Swine Innovation Centre 1. Research and development centre 1. Validation 2. Are you nuts, come to us -innovation 2. Knowledge and business centre visitors/year 3. Research facilities (no example farm) 320 sows, 2400 finishers Expanding Biogas and manure treatment 4. Education centre 1. After school 2. MBO 3. HBO 4. University

4 Family company 3 brothers Active in 30 countries Specialized in health management Hygiene Water and Feed Labour reduction Represented in UK N.Bennet@msschippers.co.uk

5 Why better h alth management? Initiative from farmers in NL

6 Why better health management? Lower animal health costs! Development to > 100 Euro per sow/year? Topfarmers < 35 Euro per sow/year Reduction costs of antibiotics and vaccins. Solution not in a bottle! Better performance on the farm! Economical Less labour Eventually better to manage Performance on the farm

7 Improvements experimental farm Sterksel Weaners (8-23 kg) High Low % Mortality 2 4 Growth (gr/day) > Finishing Growth (gr/day) Veterinary treatments <15 >25 % Mortality 0,8 2,3 % pleurisies 5 30 No treatments of groups (water or feed) No use of growth promoters

8 Use of antibiotics in the Netherlands Pressure from media and human health enormous! Pig farming = + + = Ministry of agriculture: 30% reduction in 2011 and 50% 2013!

9 Use of antibiotics in NL? Initiative from farmers in NL

10 Daily dose All antibiotica are made combarable based upon their active substance and the advised active period For example 1 cc Naxcel is 7 daily doses For example 1 ml Ampicillan is 1 daily dose

11 Daily dose

12 Daily dose on sow herds 70 dd at sow farms dd/gaz dd/gaz netwerkbedrijven Amunts daily dose at sow farms Number of sows on farm Higher use of antibiotics less performance!

13 Health on a pig farm: What s our responsibility? Housing Hygiene Feed Stress Colostrum Others Infection Climate To optimize: a full circle is a starting disease!

14 Making more money with better health management: The way to do it Farmer wants it himself 2. Management must change Steps are well known Better internal en external biosecurity!! 3. Measuring and monitoring the effects!

15 Better internal and external biosecurity! Animal h alth: the practical theory!!

16 Animal h alth: the practical theory

17 Animal health Step 4 step 1 (animals) Step 3 Step 2

18 Effect of mixing of pigs New borns Farrowing unit (1 week) Weaners 1 week after weaning Finishing pigs Bron: Praktijkcentrum Sterksel Universiteit Utrecht: L.A.M.G. van Leengoed Veterinair Centrum Someren: R.J.M.L Raymakers

19 Reduction of mixing! New borns Farrowing unit (1 week) Weaners 1 week after weaning Finishing pigs

20 Improvements experimental farm Sterksel Weaners (8-23 kg) High Low % Mortality 2 4 Growth (gr/day) > Finishing Growth (gr/day) Veterinary treatments <15 >25 % Mortality 0,8 2,3 % pleurisies 5 30 No treatments of groups (water or feed) No use of growth promoters

21 An ideal situation Farrowing unit Weaner unit Finishing unit Fostering sow Fostering sow But there are good alternatives! OR Mixed group/risk group Fostered piglets/bad piglets Praktijkcentrum Sterksel

22 Examples of practical implementation

23 External biosecurity

24 External biosecurity Good handling of dead animals NO CONACT WITH BARN!

25 Internal biosecurity Every group of animals (age) a different colour!

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27 Internal biosecurity Evert group of animals have own materials -Pen level -Department level -Barn level

28 Colour system!

29 Hygiene of hands and materials!

30 Good drinking water A pig drinks 2-2,5 times more water than feed? 90% of dutch farms we find very bad quality of water! Streptocci in drinking water? Clean water is an essential part of farm hygiëne! A good water system is always the basis!

31 Communication and knowledge transfer! Information of animal contacts in barn

32 Effects on streptocci? Experiences VIC Sterksel

33 Developments with health management Mortality per quarter by streptococci % % 80.00% 60.00% 40.00% 20.00% 0.00% Mortality by Streptococci Kwartaal 1 Kwartaal 2 Kwartaal 3 Kwartaal 4 Year

34 Results

35 Take home messages and conclusions

36 Take home The solution of good health management is not in a bottle! Most farmers think this? The farmer will have to believe in this otherwise it won t be a succes! Stop smoking! Good health managment on the farm is: Bases upon internal and external biosecurity! The cheapest way to keep pigs healthy The most exepted way to keep pigs healthy

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