VMLL 2123 - Farrowing Management/Neonatal Piglet Enteric Diseases

At the end of this module, practitioners should be able to:

• Describe the different stages of swine production
• Describe common disease flow patterns in farrow-to-finish operations
• Describe an SPF operation and the purpose of developing SPF biosecurity protocols
• List 3 current food safety issues for the swine industry
• Describe the signs of impending farrowing and the expected events of a normal farrowing
• Describe the pathogenesis of secretory, malabsorptive, and inflammatory diarrhea
• Describe the clinical signs of, diagnostic tests for, and treatment for the common diarrheal diseases of newborn pigs

Noncredit courses do not produce academic credit nor appear on a Colorado State University academic transcript.

Instructors

David Van Metre

Dr. Dave VanMetre is an Associate Professor at CSU. He attended veterinary school at Cornell University and graduated in 1989. After completing a residency in food animal medicine and surgery at the University of California at Davis in 1993, he became board-certified in internal medicine and joined the faculty of the veterinary school at Kansas State University.

In 1999, he joined the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University. His clinical interests include surgical management of lameness in cattle, gastrointestinal disorders, and agricultural worker training.

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