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Swine
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Categories:
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Technical
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Production
Management
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Technical Services |
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Genetic selection
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Animal introduction
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Development of isolation/acclimatization facilities
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Gilt development procedures
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AI and natural breeding procedures
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Review of barn designs
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Production Management |
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Cash flows
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Benchmarking financial and production
indicators
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Production management training
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Throughput
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Financial records
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Succession
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Technical
Barn
visits Prior to visiting
a barn, Chris or Josh ensure that they either meet the farms
requirements for pig free days (for breeding companies) or that
they never visit a higher health herd following a herd with more
disease problems. A typical pig barn visit includes a review
of records (as important as the walk through), a walk through the
entire facility discussing problems concerns and future plans pig
free time for high health herds.
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Prevention, diagnostics and treatment of
disease understanding
disease in your herd: This would include the evaluation of disease
pressures within the herd, developing vaccination and treatment
protocols specifically needed on your farm, performing routine
serologic (blood) profiling (to understand the level of a pathogen
in the herd and where transmission occurs) and providing
treatments and recommendations for acute disease problems.
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Production
record analysis - PigCHAMP and hand kept records are analyzed
for production efficiency. This is one of the most important and
cost effective services that we can offer. The effectiveness of a
farms breeding, farrowing or growing pig management program lies
in the details of well kept records. The decision to make a
successful change requires the results before making the change
(repeat service rate for example) and afterward (measuring the
improvement). We produce a clear graphic presentation (graphs) of
the results which is important to communicate information to barn
staff.
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Slaughter checks with the cooperation of the slaughter
plants, we use a standardized method for analyzing and scoring
Lung, liver, heart, stomach and snout damage caused by disease.
The colour graphic reports show changes over time with comparisons
to all farms checked and recommendations are made.
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Veterinary laboratory services We have in clinic laboratory services
Our lab is capable of diagnosing the primary parasites of swine,
worms, coccidia, mange mites, lice and others, and provide
results on the same or next day. We also perform analyses of
blood for anemia and a complete blood count (CBC). Milk vaccines
have become an effective means of controlling E. coli and some
other diarrheas where commercial vaccines are ineffective. Our
lab produces the vaccine or the primer used to make the vaccine on
farm. In addition, we use laboratories throughout Canada for
support with postmortems, blood, water and feed testing and other
diagnostic challenges.
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Medical records database
farm medical records are maintained on line and recent
ones are accessible to you. Our unique program improves
prompt communication about a lab case with recommendations added
on line. Telephone communication follow-up occurs where
needed.
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Consultation on
specific health maintenance and production areas
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Genetic selection
which breeding company and which gilts
and boars. How do the different genetics and feeding
programs grade on B.C.s grid with the current bonus
structure.
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Animal
introduction
from another farm (mixing disease status) usually the way
disease enters herds
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Development of
isolation/acclimatization
facilities for bringing in new genetics
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Gilt development
procedures
to develop a high producing sow
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AI and natural
breeding procedures
for optimum reproduction including boar stud operation
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Review of barn
designs
to avoid pitfalls and costly renovations later
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Nutritional analysis we
assist farmers with nutritional problems and provide a second
opinion (in addition to the nutritionist) on the analysis of
feeding programs.
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Ventilation analysis
using engineering equipment, the environment of the pig is
analyzed and compared to standards and requirements |
Production
Management
Production
management services
Chris has earned a business
degree (MBA) specifically studying agriculture businesses and has
expanded his services to include:
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Cash flows
using spreadsheets and programs such as PorkPLAN we develop
cash flows and financial analyses for expansion,
depopulation-repopulation, multi-site production (system
lay-outs) or diversification projects.
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Benchmarking
financial and production indicators
we
are in the process of developing a benchmark for farms in this
and other areas which compares key cost measures in a standard
way.
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Production
management training
we
can assist farms with intensive management including staff
hiring and coordination, production analysis, budget and
financial management, employee programs, training, intervention
and action
plans.
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Throughput
analyze
current throughput (pigs produced by the farm) and determine
optimal throughput for the facility, constraints (reasons for
not achieving capacity), and solutions that fit your personal
goals
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Financial records
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with recognized financial record systems and consultants to
standardize and interpret income and expenses to optimize return
on investment
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Succession
consideration and comparing financial outcomes of the options
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