Report session with Francoise Foucher from Porcmag at SCEA Le Pont-Car (56).

The objective was to take stock of the interest and practical use of a sow calibration tool, the SOW CALIPER.

Justine Jeusselin and Charlotte TEIXEIRA shared their experience and perspective on the device as well as its practical use in breeding to best support the introduction of new gilts.

Charlotte will present the results of our study on the SOW CALIPER at the Swine Research Days next week (more than 2000 sows followed and 6 different genetics).

In the last Porcmag n°574 of December, find the complete file of our team which allows to take stock of the settings of the ventilation box to adapt them to the needs of the animals and the weather conditions. The article is available on the Porc Mag website: www.porcmag.com.

REZOOLUTION accompanies you for all your projects of construction and renovation of livestock buildings but also upstream of their start-up.

During her trip in Brittany to discover the French pig production, Kaisa Ryytty Sylvén swine vet in Sweden for Gård & Djurhälsan met our consultants on Thursday afternoon. She discovered all our services : pig herds audits (health, air flow, stray voltages …), contract research organisation department, biostatistics and epidemiology. Our consultants presented to Kaisa our projects for a better knowledge and management of #PRRS. This meeting finished with a visit of our new accommodations in Pontivy (offices, meeting rooms and laboratory).

Congratulations Théo Nicolazo for your oral communications during the annual congress of EAAP – European Federation of Animal Science 2022 ! The main objectives of this project was to give some scientific proofs about the consequences of stray voltages in pig housing on behaviour and physiological stress. All the team thank Elodie Merlot, Caroline Clouard, Raphaël Comte and Sophie Dare of the PEGASE group of INRAE for their advices in designing the protocol and analysing the data.

Théo joined the team in 2022 as research engineer, data manager and R&D consultant. He graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Agricultures (ESA) Angers Loire. He will be manager of the CRO’s activities. During his studies, he developed specific skills as clinical and behavioural observations and recordings, biological samples collection and GCP’s investigations and data management.

Charlotte joins the team today as research engineer and PhD student. She will be fully involved in a PhD project for 3 years in partnership with EPISABE laboratory from ANSES. This project will improve deeply our expertise in PRRSV global approach in order to design and propose new services to our partners (pig farmers, swine vets, pharmaceutical labs …) in Europe