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The consumption of antibiotics in the Spanish pig sector increased by 11,6 % in 2025 compared with the previous year, reaching 549,9 mg/kg of biomass, according to the National report on antibiotic consumption in the porcine species 2020-2025, published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and…
According to online surveys, 60-70% of raw materials in China are contaminated with mycotoxins. Mycotoxins pose a serious health risk to livestock and poultry, severely affecting the economic returns of farms. We know that corn accounts for approximately 60% of feed. It should be noted that cor…
I. Common Intestinal Diseases in Chicken Flocks During Summer and Autumn (I) Enteritis-type Escherichia coli Disease An infectious disease caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli, characterized by rapid spread and a high mortality rate. 1, Predisposing factors: In summe…
Recently, during market visits, I have helped customers deal with many problems in pullets. On post-mortem examination of pullets, oviduct blockage is encountered relatively often. Customers would rather forfeit their deposits than take these birds. This is because once oviduct blockage is foun…
Editor's note: While organizing past documents, we came across this article. Although opinions vary widely on proventriculitis and ventriculitis in chickens, comprehensive, valuable articles are rare. This article systematically describes the history and development of proventriculitis and vent…
MSD Animal Health, a division of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA (NYSE: MRK), was distinguished with the “Innovation Award”, awarded by the Portuguese Federation of Pig Farmers’ Associations (FPAS), for its intradermal vaccination system, IDAL, for pigs, as part of the XXVII National Pig Fair,…
In Brazil, the regulation of maximum tolerated levels of mycotoxins in feed for food-producing animals is established by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA), with emphasis on Normative Instruction (IN) No. 08/2007. However, swine toxicology studies warn that when the co-occurrence of m…
Infectious synovitis in chickens, also known as infectious mycoplasmosis in chickens, is an infectious disease of chickens caused by Mycoplasma synoviae. Its main features are synovitis and tenosynovitis. I. Etiology Mycoplasma synoviae is similar to Mycoplasma gallisepticum i…
Fowlpox, also called avian pox, is a slowly spreading viral disease of chickens. It is characterized by proliferative nodular lesions or scabs on the head, comb, eyelids, and wattles (dry fowlpox), as well as diphtheritic yellow lesions in the mouth, esophagus, and upper trachea (wet fowlpox or…
Introduction: Many factors can cause abnormal egg production in laying hens, including physiological, nutritional, stress-related, and pathological factors. This article briefly describes abnormal egg production in laying hens caused by MS. I. Pathogen Mycoplasma Syno…
Chicken Escherichia coli disease is a common disease caused by Escherichia coli. It is characterized by a high incidence rate, a high mortality rate, and rapid transmission. The disease can occur throughout the year, but outbreaks are more frequent during hot, humid, and changeable weather, suc…
Assays available: Gross pathology Visual inspection of lung lesions Figure 1. Picture demonstrating the classical cranial ventral consolidation associated with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (not diagnostic) and many different bacterial infections as well as some influenza A virus inf…
Along with the diphtheroid foci, or "button ulcers", other lesions are also observed such as edema in the mesocolon, a lesion that can also be observed in pigs of this age, in other diseases such as Clostridioides difficile infection or edema disease.
Modern swine production has made remarkable strides in genetics and performance over the past few decades, but this progress has brought a side effect that packing plants know all too well: a sharp rise in carcass condemnations linked to locomotor disorders. The prevalence of severe claw lesions at…
The harm caused by heat stress has become a widespread problem in poultry production today! Heat stress is the result of combined environmental factors, including air temperature, humidity, and wind speed, with temperature playing an important role. When the ambient temperature …
A common phenomenon during the process, and also a major factor in flock illness. Some people may ask: My poultry house temperature is kept very stable, there is no high ventilation, and no air is blowing directly on the chickens. So why do the chickens still get chilled and become ill? …
Fowlpox is an acute, highly contagious infectious disease caused by the fowlpox virus. It mainly affects the skin and oral mucosa of chickens, and occasionally affects both at the same time. It is characterized by pox lesions on areas of skin with no or few feathers and the formation o…
Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent infectious diseases. A vaccination is considered successful when it produces good antibody levels. However, after comparing antibody test results before and after vaccination in many customers’ flocks, our diagnostic laboratory found that antibod…
Report Overview Mr. Wang Xueqiang, Senior Vice President of Ningxia Xiaoming Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd., holds an EMBA from Renmin University of China. He has extensive hands-on experience in the feeding and management of breeding chickens, technical management, …
Have you ever run into this situation when raising chickens?— The flock seems alert enough, but the droppings look wrong: either loose and shapeless, or in all sorts of colors—yellow, white, green, or black. Feed-like droppings, tomato-like droppings, and fish-gut-like droppings…
As the industry develops, large-scale poultry farming is becoming increasingly mature. This means farming businesses must improve their ability to withstand risks more quickly. This is especially true of disease prevention and control: it must be precise, accurate, and fast. Otherwise,…
Introduction In 2024, a submission was received at Royal GD (Deventer, the Netherlands) for postmortem examination of a weaned piglet from an 850-sow farm. Weaned piglets on the farm showed a syndrome characterized by bulging eyes, corneal opacity, and hair loss. During this and subsequent subm…
The Costa Rican Chamber of Pig Producers (CAPORC) called for strengthening animal welfare, biosecurity, and good management practices on pig farms in Costa Rica. According to the Chamber, disease prevention and the proper use of veterinary medicines are essential components of comprehensive health …
Flérida Izquierdo has joined Ceva Santé Animale as Swine Marketing & Technical Manager. A veterinarian by training, she has more than twelve years of experience in animal health and agrifood, gained in roles combining technical expertise, marketing and business development, in France and internatio…
