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7,000,000 dead piglets. PED infects the sows, who typically pass the virus to their piglets through manure and none-to-nose contact. If the sows have had no previous exposure, they are unable to impart immunity to pigs through their colostrum. The virus unabatedly destroys the lining of the pigs gut, causing severe diarrhea and dehydration. For newborn piglets, that’s almost always deadly. Howard Hill, president of the National Pork Producer’s Council, says incidence estimates from Minnesota are that half of the U.S. sow herd has been infected in the last year alone. With 6,000,000 sows, that means 3,000,000 have had PED. While some sows lose 100% of their piglets, others survive, and on average the loss is 2.7 pigs per sow her year. Multiply that out, and the loss to PED is about 7,000,000 piglets, or 10% of the pig crop in the past year. About 1,300,000 pigs died from PED in January 2014 alone. “We can make up for some of the loss by better performance of the ones that survive, or less of other diseases,” says Hill. “And we can feed the survivors to heavier weights to make up for some of the tonnage loss.”
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7,000,000 dead piglets. PED infects the sows, who typically pass the virus to their piglets through manure and none-to-nose contact. If the sows have had no previous exposure, they are unable to impart immunity to pigs through their colostrum. The virus unabatedly destroys the lining of the pigs gut, causing severe diarrhea and dehydration. For newborn piglets, that’s almost always deadly. Howard Hill, president of the National Pork Producer’s Council, says incidence estimates from Minnesota are that half of the U.S. sow herd has been infected in the last year alone. With 6,000,000 sows, that means 3,000,000 have had PED. While some sows lose 100% of their piglets, others survive, and on average the loss is 2.7 pigs per sow her year. Multiply that out, and the loss to PED is about 7,000,000 piglets, or 10% of the pig crop in the past year. About 1,300,000 pigs died from PED in January 2014 alone. “We can make up for some of the loss by better performance of the ones that survive, or less of other diseases,” says Hill. “And we can feed the survivors to heavier weights to make up for some of the tonnage loss.”
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