Pig Health - Gilt Management & Integration

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The health risk of introducing gilts from outside the farm is:

	Negligible
	Negligible if introduced as weaner gilts (35Kg ? 45kg)
	Unacceptable
	Can be managed

What are the health risks of introducing gilts?

	Introduction of new pathogenic agents
	Introduction of new strains of resident agents
	Naive gilts meeting recipient herd pathogens
	Destabilisation of recipient health herd
	All of these

Which of the following techniques reduce the risk of health problems with gilt introduction?

	Quarantine
	Vaccination without quarantine
	Direct introduction
	In-feed antibiotics for the first 2 weeks

To reduce health and production problems in gilts which of the following aspects should be addressed?

	Immediate exposure to the herd?s pathogens
	Appropriately timed and targeted vaccination
	Provision of warm dry accommodation
	Intermittent boar contact before service
	All of these

The aim of vaccination of gilts entering the herd is:

	To prevent them bringing new disease with them
	To eliminate disease they are carrying
	To protect them against disease they meet on arrival
	All of these

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