Impact of porcine respiratory disease complex on carcass weight and meatiness: quantitative insights from a mixed-model analysis
Paulina Przyborowska, Renata Lewko-Wojtowicz, Piotr Cybulski, Dominiek Maes, Dawid Tobolski · 2024
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Paulina Przyborowska and co-authors measure how lung disease in pigs affects carcass value in a 2024 study. Respiratory disease in pigs causes fever, cough, and poor growth, and it raises drug costs for farmers. At slaughter, lung scars offer a record of how severe the disease was.
The team checked nearly seven hundred pigs from seven farms for two kinds of lung damage. Pigs with severe lesions gained less weight per day than pigs without lesions. Damage in one lobe and one form of chest lining inflammation each cut carcass weight and meat by clear margins. Under average prices, severe lesions could cost more than eleven euros per hundred kilograms of meat. The authors urge better disease control for both animal welfare and farm income.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Paulina Przyborowska, Renata Lewko-Wojtowicz, Piotr Cybulski, Dominiek Maes, Dawid Tobolski |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 58 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |