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Growing concern, impact of Mycoplasma-associated arthritis

2015-06-01 22:58:00| National Hog Farmer

By Bailey Wilberts, Kent Schwartz and Chris Rademacher, Iowa State University Formerly a fringe issue, lameness in swine production has become a priority in the face of recent veterinary and producer-driven lameness investigations showing that losses attributable to lameness can reach $23 per growing pig. Culls or mortality due to lameness and joint disease can routinely approach 1% to 5% of the total population. read more

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