Growing Healthy Pigs MSD Animal Health UK

Improving traceability and ensuring higher welfare pig production is key for the UK pig sector to thrive.

To support this, MSD Animal Health UK is proud to launch LeeO Precision Farming B.V., an innovative, real-time monitoring system, which will allow UK producers to track individual pig and herd performance throughout their life
cycle.

From this data, producers and integrators will gain a better understanding of the health and welfare status of all pigs under their management and, ultimately, it will enable
consumers to be more informed about where their pork comes from and how it has been produced.

In this episode of the Growing Healthy Pigs podcast, Ingrid Potter, key account manager at MSD Animal Health UK, speaks to LeeO founder, Peter ter Linde, about the innovative technology behind LeeO and how it will benefit the UK pig sector from global use case examples.

From the potential to replace slap-marking, to influencing management decisions on-farm, the introduction of LeeO provides the opportunity to revolutionise the UK pig sector.

At the PHM Respiratory Health Conference, which was held in Milton Keynes earlier this year, a number of industry experts and MSD Animal Health UK Ltd colleagues spoke about respiratory health in pigs and what can be done to protect this.

Some of the speakers included MSD Animal Health UK veterinary technical manager Dr. Serena Shanahan and technical excellence manager Monika Ptaszynska-Sutton.

Veterinary surgeon Jordi Baliellas explained how Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is dealt with in Spain and Hugh Crabtree shared how correct housing and ventilation can support the performance of pigs.

In this Growing Healthy Pigs podcast episode, you can hear some of the highlights from the conference.

In this special episode we’re giving a preview of what to expect from our upcoming respiratory conference taking place at the end of this month.
We’ll be discussing the importance of respiratory health in pigs and how this can be proactively managed on-farm by producers and vets to help increase productivity, performance and welfare.



To register your interest for the conference please email: ukpigteam@msd.com

In this episode, Serena Shanahan, Veterinary Technical Manager for MSD Animal Health UK Pigs, is joined by Ingrid Potter, MSD Animal Health UK Pigs Key Account Manager, to discuss the stress parameters surrounding pig vaccination and how combination vaccines can help combat this. Also joining us is Wayne Benefer, of North Farm Livestock, who shares his experiences of using combination vaccines across the pig sites he managers.

In this episode, we continue to explore technology and innovation in the pig sector by discussing freedom farrowing systems. We’ll be talking to one of our Growing Health Pigs ambassador farmers who has installed a freedom farrowing system on his farm to see what the benefits are and if these systems are the future of the pig sector in the UK.  

In this episode, we continue to explore technology and innovation in the pig sector by discussing the rise of robotics and how the novel technology is being used across the world to help producers and pigs alike. We're joined by Stephane Clement from Jyga Technologies in this episode to hear how robotics is being used in his country.