Documentations

Pig farm profitability : leverage possibilities

The high heterogeneity between pig farm production costs constitutes the main target margin for improving profitability, and underlines the utility of analysing any technically and economically profitable system that is…

Le nettoyage-désinfection en élevage porcin

Réalisation successive et rigoureuse des différentes étapes du protocole : comment optimiser le nettoyage et la désinfection ; les 6 étapes ; quelle quantité de produit utiliser et comment calculer…

La sélection porcine collective en France

Organisation de la sélection collective, contrôle des performances, évaluation génétique, optimisation de la sélection, exigences sanitaires réglementaires. Édition 2004 - 76 pages

Destructured meat in the pork industry : combined effects of transport and resting time before slaughter on the frequency of the appearance of this defect

Destructured meat : several risk factors identified

Production of "presliced-prepacked" superior quality cooked ham is booming. However, meat-curing operators are increasingly reporting a defect they call "destructured ham" that can only be detected after the hams have…

Etude et modélisation du développement de Listeria monocytogenes dans la viande de porc en présence de sels d'acides organiques et de fumée liquide - Application pour prédire l'influence de la formulation de la saumure et de la fumée de fumage lors du pro

Application pour prédire l’influence de la formulation de la saumure et de la fumée de fumage lors du procédé de fabrication des lardons. Les récentes épidémies de listériose ont conduit…

Grille d’audit du nettoyage-désinfection

Une grille d’audit du nettoyage-désinfection complète le dépliant de 6 pages. Elle répertorie les points clés des étapes du protocole et permet de les interpréter de manière personnalisée pour chaque…

Effect of increasing the floor space allowance on performance, skin lesions and behaviour of growing-finishing pigs

Two experiments were conducted successively in two rooms each comprising of six pens of 6.8 m2. The control treatment, ten pigs/pen (10C: 0.68m2/pig) was compared with 8 pigs/pen (8C: 0.85…

Grouping piglets by sex at weaning reduces aggressive behaviou

The aim of this work is to reduce aggressive behaviour when piglets are grouped at weaning.The experiment is conducted to determine whether it is better to group piglets by sex…

Salmonella status in swine units characterization: comparative study of serology and bacteriology

Salmonella are the main cause of human collective food toxi-infections. A new European regulation published in November 2003 imposes to set up a control of these bacteria in the swine…

Environmental optimization of systems of swine production

A model was developed in order to optimize under different constraints the production systems in a farm associating crop and fattening pig productions. For each simulation the model calculated the…

An evaluation tool of the ratio between nitrogen-phosphorus rejects and the availability of land for french pig farms

The global aim of this study is to realise a territorial survey of nitrogen and phosphorus management in pig farms, taking into account nearby farms. Based on an analysis of…