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Deux porcelets dans un bâtiment d'élevage
  • Animal welfare
  • Animal performance
  • Swine

Controlling the delicate post-weaning period for piglets: increased performance and robustness with Techna expertise

Reduced feed intake, diarrhoea, stunted growth: stress during weaning has a direct impact on the profitability of the farm. Ensuring a good start for piglets…
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Porcs en engraissement
  • Animal welfare
  • Animal performance
  • Swine

Managing animal behaviour on pig farms

Faced with the constant challenges linked to animal nervousness in pig farming, TECHNA is innovating with ROBUS ZEN, a solution that tackles the root causes of…
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Porc qui nage dans l'océan
  • Animal welfare
  • Feed efficiency
  • Periods at risk
  • Swine

How to Reduce the Impact of Extreme Heat and Avoid Heat Stress in Pigs

As in poultry, pigs are incapable of sweating in order to cool off; this makes them acutely sensitive to heat stress. Heat stress results from the combination…
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Piglets in a farm
  • Periods at risk
  • Digestive safety
  • Swine

How to Adapt Piglet Feed around Weaning?

The recent development of hyper prolific breeding lines and earlier weanings have increased the fragility of piglets at this early stage of life. However, this…
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NIR - Near Infra Red
  • Feed performance
  • Poultry
  • Ruminants
  • Swine
  • Aquaculture
  • Rabbits

Near Infra-Red (NIR): Controlled Manufacturing of Feed Compounds

For fifteen years, the NIR (Near Infra-Red) has shaken up methods of analysis in animal nutrition. Who imagined a day when we could know the nutritional value…
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Homme prélevant un échantillon dans un sac de premix
  • Feed performance
  • Poultry
  • Ruminants
  • Swine
  • Aquaculture
  • Rabbits

Why is it Essential to Apply a Good Method for Feed Sampling?

Good sampling of raw materials and feeds is the basic condition for validating a quality control plan. It is also the key to satisfactory regulatory control…
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Porcelets qui tètent leur mère
  • Periods at risk
  • Digestive safety
  • Swine

To prevent piglets losses during lactation

Societal concerns about pig production impact major evolutions on farms: massive reduction of restraint (free-farrowing sows, exterior access), reduction of…
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Main avec des aliments et des porcelets à l'arrière
  • Feed efficiency
  • Digestive safety
  • Swine

How to Succeed in Milling Piglet Feed

Weaning piglets means, amongst other changes, a transition to a new diet. From a liquid diet of sow’s milk with lactose as an energy source, the piglet’s diet…
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Loupe avec des granulés
  • Feed preservation
  • Feed performance
  • Poultry
  • Ruminants
  • Swine
  • Aquaculture
  • Rabbits

The Carry Over Control Procedure, to Guarantee the Quality of Animal Feed

The carry over control aims to ensure livestock feed safety and to guarantee the compliance of animal feed with regulations. Still, this control is above all…
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Truies gestantes
  • Animal welfare
  • Feed efficiency
  • Swine

How to Adjust the Diet of Gestating Sows to Optimise their Longevity?

Feeding sows aims to optimise their breeding potential and to ensure their longevity. Some countries have legally imposed the placement of gestating sows in…
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Alimentation de précision Euronutrition
  • Feed performance
  • Animal performance
  • Swine

Using software data and improving margin over feed costs when applying precision feeding on growing pigs

How to strike a balance between sustainability, economic growth and individual feed efficiency in pig production systems? To answer this question, the Techna…
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Truie qui allaite ses porcelets
  • Animal welfare
  • Feed efficiency
  • Periods at risk
  • Swine

Improving Sows’ Feed Intake throughout Lactation

The number of quality piglets sold per sow per year is a key component to the profitability of pig production. A piglet’s homogeneous weight gain throughout…
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Microbiote
  • Animal performance
  • Digestive safety
  • Swine

Links between microbiota, immunity and robustness in pigs

What if the key to better pig health lay in the gut? In order to gain a better understanding of the interactions between the host, the intestinal microbiota…
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2 porcelets sur la paille
  • Animal performance
  • Periods at risk
  • Swine

How can we manage weaning stress with less medication and less Zinc oxide?

Separation with his mother, changes of feed and environment can have a damaging impact on a piglet’s intestinal microbiota. Watch this video and get Techna's…
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Microbiota
  • Feed efficiency
  • Animal performance
  • Poultry
  • Ruminants
  • Swine

Improving Feed Conversion Efficiency via a Better Understanding of Gut Microbiotia

The discovery of PCR, the polymerase chain reaction, has now made the genetic information of cells accessible — the DNA from billions of cells hosted in the…
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Bag of soya
  • Environmental impact
  • Poultry
  • Ruminants
  • Swine
  • Aquaculture
  • Rabbits

Managing the environmental impact of feed formulas

Environmental issues have become increasingly important on the planet. Amongst them, greenhouse gas emissions occupy a predominant place (Paris Agreement 2015…
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