General Swine Knowledge
This is the term for a baby pig.
What is a piglet?
This is the main goal of biosecurity on a swine farm.
What is preventing disease spread?
This disease stands for “Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea”.
What is PED?
This is Dr. Haden's profession.
What is a veterinarian?
This is the name of your ANSC 484 professor.
Who is Dr. Byrd?
Where are most of the nutrients absorbed in the digestive system?
What is a small intestine?
People, equipment, and vehicles are all examples of this.
What are biosecurity risks?
These animals are most affected by PED and suffer the highest mortality.
What are piglets?
This company employs Dr. Cara Haden as a veterinarian.
What is Pipestone?
This is jaegers favorite product from a pig.
What is BACON?
This stage of production focuses on raising pigs from weaning to market weight.
What is the grow-finish stage?
Dr. Haden identified dirty versions of these as the most common biosecurity failure.
What are trailers?
During a PED outbreak, the mortality of piglets is approximately this percentage.
What is near 100%?
According to Dr. Haden, this is the most difficult part of her job.
What is people's incompetence?
This is the primary symptom seen in pigs with PED.
What is diarrhea?
Because they have a simple stomach similar to humans, rather than a four-compartment stomach, pigs are categorized this way.
What is monogastric?
This term refers to an object that can carry and spread disease (boots, tools, or feed).
What is a fomite?
This overlooked transmission route was a major focus of our presentation.
What is feed?
This is the size farm our interviewee typically works with, often over this many sows.
What is 3,000+ sows?
This is the name of the NDSU swine units manager.
Who is Megan K.
This is the approximate length of a sow’s gestation period. BONUS: what is the saying to remember this length.
What is 114 days?
What is 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days?
This concept separates “clean” and “dirty” areas on a farm to prevent disease entry.
What is the line of separation?
Feed mitigation must occur at this stage to prevent disease spread.
What is before the feed reaches the farm?
This is Dr. Haden's role at Pipestone.
What is the Director of Animal Welfare and Biosecurity?
This process intentionally exposes pigs to a disease to build immunity.
What is herd homogenization?