Improving leg health in broiler chickens: A systematic review on the effect of environmental enrichment
Leg problems are highly prevalent in modern broiler production and provision of environmental enrichment could be a strategy to improve leg health. Different types of environmental enrichment have undergone evaluation. Our objective was to conduct a systematic review of the effect of environmental enrichment on ...
Big (pig) data and the internet of swine things. A new paradigm in the industry
The present work addresses the use of data in improving decision making and farm productivity, one of the aspects that has generated more interest in swine production in recent years. In the current review, the limitations of data management and recently developed strategies in this ...
Control of Salmonella on pig farms in the post-antibiotic era
Neil Foster (University of Nottingham) was invited speaker at the XLV Meeting Annuale of S.I.P.A.S. on 21-22 March 2019 in Rezzato, Italy.
Longitudinal study on causes of mortality in Danish broiler breeders
Accepted for publication in Avian Diseases on 20 March 2019.
Consumer attitudes towards production diseases in intensive production systems
Many members of the public and important stakeholders operating at the upper end of the food chain, may be unfamiliar with how food is produced, including within modern animal production systems. The intensification of production is becoming increasingly common in modern farming.
PROHEALTH appearance in Pig Progress
Vivi Aarestrup Moustsen of the Danish Pig Research Centre gives an overview about her work in PROHEALTH and shares her personal experiences of being involved in such a large research project in the form of an Expert Opinion article in Pig Progress.
Join us at the final PROHEALTH events
PROHEALTH Industry Workshops and Scientific Symposium, Ghent, Belgium on the 27-28 November 2018 As the PROHEALTH project is drawing to a close do not miss the opportunity to join our consortium at the PROHEALTH Industry Workshops and Scientific Symposium. The events will be held in ...
PROHEALTH event at the European Parliament
Pre-conference dinner with key European stakeholders PROHEALTH is delighted to have the chance to present its final results in front of high profile European stakeholders, including representatives of the European Parliament and its Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) panel and its Committee on Agriculture ...
PROHEALTH Policy Briefs and Best Practice Guidelines
Coordinator Ilias Kyriazakis shares his thoughts on the main achievements of PROHEALTH as it draws to a close after 5 years of public-private collaboration PROHEALTH: sustainable control of pig and poultry production diseases, was the largest ever project funded by the European Union on animal ...
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 ...
PROHEALTH 2017
A successful year in science communication As PROHEALTH has been approaching its final stages, the dissemination activities have been intensifying in order to showcase the exciting outcomes and results coming through from the ongoing research carried out by the consortium. In total, the consortium members ...