(1) Following intratracheal challenge or contact exposure, serologically negative pigs derived from mycoplasma-free piggeries developed an immune response within 10 days.
(2) Causes of preweaning mortality were examined on a large intensive piggery.
(3) The disease was diagnosed in both intensively housed pigs and pigs farmed outdoors, with mortality rates higher in piggeries with less than 50 sows.
(4) Faecal samples were collected from 20 pigs in 4 age groups in randomly selected piggeries, and examined for the presence of eggs of helminth parasites and protozoan cysts.
(5) Each was tested for safety and efficacy in reducing the severity of nasal turbinate atrophy and improving the growth rate of pigs in three Western Australian commercial piggeries with endemic atrophic rhinitis.
(6) When incorporated into a piggery for 500 pigs being planned by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the system should also reduce smell substantially both inside and outside the building.
(7) Preweaning mortality was studied in 34 commercial piggeries on the North Coast of New South Wales during a 12-month period.
(8) Trials in a large scale commercial piggery indicated that use of a combination of hormones played a significant role in synchronising and expediting the onset of oestrus.
(9) The time of development of demonstrable antibody to porcine parvovirus (PPV) was determined for 661 gilts entering the breeding herd in a 2800 sow intensive piggery; 13.2% of these gilts did not have detectable antibody to PPV when first introduced into the breeding herd at 25 to 26 weeks of age.
(10) Thus, intraperitoneal vaccination with killed M hyopneumoniae plus adjuvant might control mycoplasmal pneumonia in commercial piggeries.
(11) A summer infertility problem was investigated on a large intensive piggery in a warm temperate climatic zone in Eastern Australia.
(12) This study was therefore undertaken to investigate the relationship between symptoms, lung function and airborne endotoxin, ammonia and dust levels in piggeries.
(13) In conjunction with the trend towards increasingly large piggeries, the equilibrium between natural or specific immunity of the animal population and various viruses is often upset to the advantage of the virus.
(14) We return to La Giovanni to continue our piggery – and leave them to get on with theirs.
(15) Three further isolates of S. suis type 2 and an isolate of S. suis type 3 were recovered from cases of bronchopneumonia in weaned pigs from 4 other piggeries.
(16) Studies in the slaughter-house as well as in the piggeries (so-called 'in process control') are possible on the basis of the ELISA technique, in which method interest is also being taken in the United States today.
(17) Blood samples were taken from 121 sows and gilts on 7 commercial piggeries located around Lusaka (Zambia).
(18) Therefore anaphrodisia in big commercial piggeries can be a normal physiologic reaction of the animal and more or less an adaptation to these unfavourable circumstances.
(19) The number of years on the farm, dual exposure with dairy cattle, positive skin prick tests, type of piggery, and type of feeding did not add to the respiratory health impact of swine buildings.
(20) Continuous education of farmers regarding the importance of maintaining precautionary measures against the introduction of contagious diseases and, in the case of an advancing epizootic, special instructions to all people entering piggeries, would contribute greatly to reducing the untraceable pathways of SF spread.
Priggery
Definition:
(n.) Priggism.
Example Sentences:
(1) True enough, though righteous Lib Dem outrage makes Tory and Labour MPs laugh: they have been on the receiving end of Lib Dem priggery for decades.