Farms.com Home   News

PED On The Rise This Year In Manitoba

 
Hogs are being moved out of a finisher farm in southeast Manitoba, after the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) Virus was discovered at the operation last week. The pigs are being moved out to the US market. The barn is being cleaned and disinfected and new pigs will be brought in once the disease is under control.
 
This was the tenth on-farm case of PED discovered in the province. The farm is within 5 km of a sow farm that was confirmed positive for PED on September 14th.
 
Manitoba Pork General Manager Andrew Dickson says they don't believe the two cases are directly related. Calls are currently being put out to find out where the disease might have come from and also where it might end up.
 
"The problem we've had with all the cases is that we've never been able to definitively say how each of those operations got the disease," commented Dickson. "There's so many potential ways the virus could be spread, by the time it got into a barn, the way it might have got in there is long past."
 
Dickson couldn't say how many pigs would be lost, but the number is in the hundreds. He notes the plan is to get both farms back into operation once the disease has been eradicated.
 
Source : Portageonline

Trending Video

Catching Up on Hay and Crops!

Video: Catching Up on Hay and Crops!

Catching Up on Hay and Crops! After weeks of delay due to relentless rain, we’re finally back in the fields at Ewetopia Farms! In today’s episode of our daily sheep farming vlog, we take you on a full tour of our hay and crop fields, including first-cut hay, second-cut alfalfa, barley, corn, and beans—all of which go directly into feeding our flock. We grow all our own feed so that we know exactly what our sheep are eating, from homegrown hay to custom-milled grain rations.