How the updated Pig Health Scheme can help your business

摘要

Paware of, or may have accepted as 'liveable with' on their units,roducers can get information on diseases they may not bethrough the updated Pig Health Scheme, the successor to the British Pig Health Scheme (BPHS). Measuring the levels of these conditions on farms may help to reduce those unexplained falls in performance that seem to have no cause.The scheme is free of charge and easy to sign up to, so producers can quickly start to see the benefit. Pigs are assessed at slaughter by trained veterinary assessors, looking at 12 different conditions in the lungs, heart, liver, tail and skin. Producers will receive a report on pigs from their unit that have been sent to slaughter. This should be discussed with the unit's vet, so they can take steps to get ahead of any disease before it becomes a greater problem.