When it comes to hog production your veterinarian is one of the first sources of information and often considered a “team member.” At the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Swine Health Seminar Mike Elsenmenger, DVM, Swine Vet Center, talked to us about production.
Mike wanted attendees to know that to have successful grow-finish pigs it starts at the sow farm and that it really starts back at the gilt developer and a lot of time needs to be spent there in the barns preparing the pigs to enter the finish barns. He also wanted the group to know that while PRRS is extremely important, so are the other things. However, because PRRS is so important he says systems need to be created that will produce a PRRS negative pig. Then producers have more options. A negative pig is one that has never seen PRRS virus. Mike Elsenmenger Interview