Sharing the knowledge
Recent peer-reviewed publications from PROHEALTH As the EU-funded PROHEALTH project is approaching the end of its 5-year duration, the focus has been moved from experimentation and measurements towards analysing, synthesising and concluding. Several recently published papers present PROHEALTH studies and their findings: Sakkas et al. ...
A strategy for reducing antibiotic use in pig production
How results from PROHEALTH are adding value for a French premix and feed company and its customers CCPA is a premix and feed company. Our customers are mainly feed manufacturers for poultry, pig and ruminants production, operating in France, across Europe, Asia and Latin America. ...
Discover our Online Poultry Journal
Aggregated news and information from the poultry sector We would like to introduce a new feature that has recently been added to the PROHEALTH website: the Online Poultry Journal which can be found in the PROHEALTH Knowledge Centre. Conceived and designed by the poultry experts ...
Enriching sow environment and diet during pregnancy influences sow welfare and piglet survival
Conclusions from a PROHEALTH experimental study Piglet mortality is a major concern for pig producers. On European farms, approximately one piglet out of five or six is born dead or dies after birth. The main cause of stillbirth is prolonged farrowing possibly due to stress ...
Managing More Survivors
Impacts of birthweight and pre-natal growth restriction on piglets Larger litter size from prolific sows has reduced birth weight of commercial pigs and lead to increased variation of birth weights within a litter. However birth weight alone does not distinguish between small piglets and those ...