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Volume 33 | Number 3 Winter 2012 Date of Issue: January 2012 Published quarterly by Alberta Pork with cooperation from the British Columbia Hog Marketing Commission, Sask Pork and Manitoba Pork Council Subscriptions For new subscriptions, change of address or other subscription queries, please contact Alberta Pork Phone: 780-474-8288 Fax: 780-479-5128 Email: info@albertapork.com Publications Mail Agreement No. 40062769 Return Undeliverable Canadian Addresses to: Circulation Department 4828 - 89 Street Edmonton, Alberta T6E 5K1 Publisher Darcy Fitzgerald Business Manager & Editorial Director Bernie Peet Phone: 403-782-3776 Fax: 403-782-4161 Email: bjpeet@telusplanet.net Advertising James Shaw 1 Burnhamthorpe Park Blvd. Islington, Ontario Canada M9A 1H8 Phone: 416-231-1812 Fax: 416-233-4858 Email: jamesshaw@rogers.com Cover Photo VIDO recently opened the International Vaccine Centre, one the largest BSL3 containment facilities in the world Editor’s Notes ..................................................................................................................4 News and Views ............................................................................................................6 Industry Viewpoint .................................................................................................. 14 Swine Technology Workshop Mission critical - Piglet care in the first 48 hours ......................................... 24 Managing nursery pigs in the first seven days after weaning ................... 28 Driving down feed costs with alternative ingredients ..................................31 Transport losses in market weight pigs ..............................................................41 Special Features Health The effects of increasing feed inclusions of co-products and reducing dietary crude protein on pork omega-3 fatty acid content and feed cost .............................................................................................................. 46 Alberta Pork launches new strategic plan ........................................................ 50 Research highlights opportunities to reduce energy costs ..........................51 Got Colostrum? .......................................................................................................... 53 Tis the season: Meningitis in grow-finish pigs ............................................... 56 Vaccination can help to improve your herd health ........................................61 International Round-up ...................................................................................... 64 View from Europe Time for another look at feed conversion ......................................................... 69 Group sow housing and feed costs challenge Irish producers ....................71 Pigs Down Under Managing nursery pigs Page 28 Review of 2011: Natural disasters and thin margins ................................................. 75 Ad Index ........................................................................................................................... 78 Western Hog Journal | Winter 2012 | 3
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