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Original study
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24 Sep 2025
Original study |
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| 24 Sep 2025
Digital documentation of individual treatment data and its relation to veterinary slaughter lesions in pigs
Hannah Görge
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Christian-Albrechts University, Olshausenstraße 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany
Imme Dittrich
Chamber of Agriculture of Schleswig-Holstein, Gutshof 1, 24327 Blekendorf, Germany
Thore Wilder
Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Christian-Albrechts University, Olshausenstraße 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany
Nicole Kemper
Institute of Animal Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Farm Animal Behavior, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Bischofsholer Damm 15, 30173 Hanover, Germany
Joachim Krieter
Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, Christian-Albrechts University, Olshausenstraße 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany
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The aim of the study was to use a digital system for the documentation of treatments and to investigate treatments, performance parameters and breeds. Farrowing-related treatments and high treatment indices of the sow related with an increase in stillborn piglets and high treatment indices of the sow resulted in fewer piglets born alive. Sows with parity of 1 had the highest treatment indices, which decreased over parities and increased for parity ≥8.
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Arch. Anim. Breed., 67, 431–443, https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-67-431-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-67-431-2024, 2024
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The aim of the study was to use a digital system for the documentation of treatments and to investigate treatments, performance parameters and breeds. Farrowing-related treatments and high treatment indices of the sow related with an increase in stillborn piglets and high treatment indices of the sow resulted in fewer piglets born alive. Sows with parity of 1 had the highest treatment indices, which decreased over parities and increased for parity ≥8.
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Short summary
With a digital documentation tool, individual treatment frequencies, repeated treatments and distributions of treatments over time were elaborated for treatment categories. Most of the individual treatments were administered in the fattening stable, followed closely by the rearing stable. Relations between on-farm treatments and lesions reported at slaughter were found when treatments were administered in the early or later life stage of the individuals.
With a digital documentation tool, individual treatment frequencies, repeated treatments and...
