For many centuries, Rwandans were more attached to cows, goats, and sheep when it came to livestock farming, while pigs were mostly overlooked and considered dirty animals. Similarly, eating pork ...

The pages of this edition highlight the dynamics of the meat industry in the ASEAN zone, considers new frontiers in pig feed efficiency, and visits a Dutch couple who enjoying good result at their ...

Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, a Gram-positive bacterium, is the primary etiological agent of swine erysipelas (SE) and can adversely affect sow reproductive performance. The bacterium comprises ...

CFHS is “disappointed that the pig industry wasn’t willing to outright end the use of inhumane sow stalls,” Cartwright said, but added that retailers and consumers are now “pushing the market hard to ...

Jejunal tissue samples were collected from three healthy adult pigs (Wild boar, Jinhua, and Duroc, Figure 1a), representing three domestication statuses: wild boars, local domesticated breed, and an ...

Selangor DVS director Dr Hassuzana Khalil (second from right) said about half of the infected pigs had died from African swine fever. Pigs in nearly half of the farms in Kuala Langat and Sepang ...

MONTREAL -- The stink will stay, at least for now, but in a biotech breakthrough Canadian scientists have created a pig whose manure is expected to do far less harm to the environment than the poop of ...

Scientists have engineered swine that pollute less, fend off disease ... beyond the womb—the researchers overproduce embryos and hope for the best. Normally, a sow will have a litter of 10 piglets ...