• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2006

The objective of this study was to estimate genetic parameters between first and later parities as different traits in reproductive traits of pigs using multiple trait animal model procedures. Data related to reproductive traits from a total of 2,371 individuals maintained at a farm were taken from the pedigree file. Sires and dams were consisted of Duroc, Landrace, and Yorkshire breeds, respectively. The first and later parity records were considered as different traits. Traits included in analyses were total pigs born (TB1), number of pigs born alive (NBA1), number of pigs weaned (NW1), and litter weaning weight (LWT1) in the first parity, and total pigs born (TB2), number of pigs born alive (NBA2), number of pigs weaned (NW2), litter weaning weight (LWT2) and interval between farrowing events (FTF) in later parities. Heritability estimates of TB1, NBA1, NW1 and LWT1 in the first parity were 0.27, 0.25, 0.16 and 0.20, respectively. For TB2, NBA2, NW2, LWT2 and FTF in later parities, heritabilities were estimated as 0.15, 0.15, 0.08, 0.11 and 0.07, respectively. Genetic correlations between sow reproductive traits in the first parity and in the second and later parity were estimated to be 0.89, 0.77, 0.58 and 0.66, respectively, between TB1 and TB2, NBA1 and NBA2, NW1 and NW2, and LWT1 and LWT2. While phenotypic correlations between TB1 and TB2, NBA1 and NBA2, NW1 and NW2, and LWT1 and LWT2 were estimated as 0.18, 0.15, 0.06 and 0.10, respectively. Genetic correlations between reproductive traits of first and later parities were not high indicating that reproductive traits for sows should be analyzed while considering the parities as different traits.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제58권1호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2018

This study aimed at determining the current knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) of layer and pig farmers to antimicrobial usage and its consequences. Description of such KAP could provide insights useful for promoting the rational use of antimicrobials in livestock. From May 2014 to February 2016, a survey involving 251 respondents in Chiang Mai, Lamphun, and Chonburi provinces, Thailand, was conducted by using a validated questionnaire. More than half (51.0%) of the respondents incorrectly believed that antimicrobial drug efficacy could not be reduced by using sub-recommended dosages, 61.2% had misconceptions about non-therapeutic antimicrobial use, and 66.9% inaccurately felt that antimicrobials were also effective for virus and fungi. Over half (50.6-55.2%) did not see the need to follow instructions or advice of veterinarians. Moreover, only 10.4% regularly relied on responses to drugs sensitivity tests when evaluating the effectiveness of antimicrobials. Overall, assessment of KAP regarding antimicrobial usage indicated that the majority of respondents had low levels of knowledge of antimicrobials, neutral rather than positive attitudes, and employed poor practices in the use of antimicrobials. The results indicate improvements in KAP could be helpful in developing more effective interventions by farmers, reduce antibiotic usage, and slow the growth of antimicrobial resistance.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제65권4호
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• pp.856-864
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• 2023

There are a variety of microorganisms in the animal intestine, and it has been known that they play important roles in the host such as suppression of potentially pathogenic microorganisms, modulation of the gut immunity. In addition, the gut microbiota and the livestock growth performance have long been known to be related. Therefore, we evaluated the interrelation between the growth performance and the gut microbiome of the pigs from 3 different farms, with pigs of varied ages ready to be supplied to the market. When pigs reached average market weight of 118 kg, the average age of pigs in three different farms were < 180 days, about 190 days, and > 200 days, respectively. Fecal samples were collected from pigs of age of 70 days, 100 days, 130 days, and 160 days. The output data of the 16S rRNA gene sequencing by the Illumina Miseq platform was filtered and analyzed using Quantitative Insights into Microbial Ecology (QIIME)2, and the statistical analysis was performed using Statistical Analysis of Metagenomic Profiles (STAMP). The results of this study showed that the gut microbial communities shifted as pigs aged along with significant difference in the relative abundance of different phyla and genera in different age groups of pigs from each farm. Even though, there was no statistical differences among groups in terms of Chao1, the number of observed operational taxonomic units (OTUs), and the Shannon index, our results showed higher abundances of Bifidobacterium, Clostridium and Lactobacillus in the feces of pigs with rapid growth rate. These results will help us to elucidate important gut microbiota that can affect the growth performance of pigs.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제23권10호
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• pp.1267-1272
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 25개 양돈장의 사육돼지를 대상으로 혈청학적 및 미생물학적 모니터링을 실시하여 살모넬라의 유병율과 감염 양상을 분석함으로써 향후 한국 양돈장의 살모넬라 제어 프로그램 구축의 기초자료로 활용하고자 하였다. 25개 양돈장의 모돈과 사육단계별 돼지 혈청 총 848두에 대한 항체검사 결과, 전체 항체 보유율은 28.4%로 나타났으며, 사육단계별로는 모돈의 항체양성율이 83.1%로 가장 높았고, 20일령 이후 모체이행항체가 소실되고, 농장에서의 사육기간이 길어질수록 살모넬라에 노출되는 빈도가 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 조사대상 25개 양돈장의 모돈군은 최소한 1두 이상의 항체 양성모돈을 보유하고 있어 향후 우리나라 살모넬라 방역에 있어 종돈장의 살모넬라 감염 통제 및 음성 후보돈 공급체계 확립이 가장 시급한 것으로 판단되었다. 25개 양돈장에서 채취한 사육단계별 돼지 분변에 대한 세균 분리 동정 결과, 혈청학적으로 감염유형인 16개 양돈장 중 3개 양돈장(12.0%)에서 살모넬라 균이 분리되었다. 이러한 결과는 양돈장 사육 돼지집단에 대한 살모넬라 감염상황을 정확하게 파악하기 위해서는 세균검사법만으로는 한계가 있으며, 돈군 내의 준임상감염축 또는 잠복감염축을 진단할 수 있는 혈청검사를 병행해야 함을 시사해준다. 또한 향후 우리나라의 양돈장 살모넬라 통제 프로그램을 구축하기 위하여 다양한 양돈장 모니터링 기법을 개발하고, 현장 효용성을 확인하기 위한 확대 시험이 필요하다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.1019-1023
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• 2001

An on-farm trial was conducted in temperature-controlled lactation rooms at a commercial pig farm to investigate the efficacy of broadcasting sow suckling grunts from day 4 of lactation, on increasing piglet growth to weaning. In the Broadcast treatment, sows and litters were exposed to a 3-min broadcast from loud-speakers every 42 min. The Control treatment was not exposed to the broadcast. All sows and litters had similar husbandry and piglets were provided with creep feed on the floor twice daily. In each of the three replicates in time, the Broadcast and Control treatments were allocated to different lactation rooms at random and there were 12 sows and litters per treatment per replicate. A total of four identical lactation rooms were available for the trial, each containing 28 conventional sow and litter crates with piglet heater in the creep area. A non-trial room separated the two treatment rooms in each replicate to minimise the chance that the broadcast grunt stimulation was audible to the Control treatment litters. Five "normal and average-looking" piglets from the trial litters were weighed twice, 7 d apart. The cohort of five piglets was identified by ear-tags and formed the experimental unit for the statistical analysis. The average (${\pm}SD$) age of piglets at initial weighing was 7.7(${\pm}2.22$) days. For each litter, mean piglet live weight at day 14 of lactation was estimated by linear regression of the two weights recorded seven days apart, when on average, the Broadcast treatment had been exposed to the stimulation for 10 days. Piglets in the Broadcast treatment were heavier (p<0.01) at day 14 of lactation compared to Control treatment (4.24 and 3.92 kg, respectively) and tended to have a greater average daily weight gain over the 7-d period (245 and 228 g/day, respectively; p<0.08). The results suggest piglet growth was improved by about 8% in response to the regular, timed broadcast of sow suckling grunts in the lactation shed. The independent contributions of milk and creep feed to the improved growth remain to be determined.

• 한국가축번식학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.8-26
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• 1983

Various early pregnancy diagnostic methods have been developed in order to improve the reproductive efficiency in cow, mare, mule, sow, sheep, goat, dog, cat, rabbit, buffalo, camel, elephant, monkey, deer, lion, coipus and guinea pig. These methods include abdominal swelling, abdominal palpation, esturs cylce detection, Lupin test, gonadotropin assay, colostrum injection test, sperm motility assessment, cervical mucus viscosity test, Kaber chromagens method, estrogen test, A Scheim-Zond다 test, spectrophotometric detection of estrogen in urine and feces, boric acid crystraline formation test in urine, oxytocin injection test, diamino-oxidase test, PMSG HA test, behaviour test, Simolus iodine detection test, detection of tryptophane in urine, x-ray method, Cuboni and Lunaas method, vaginal biopsy method, Friedmann Schneider diagnostic method, electrode method, barium chloride detection method, ECG, Doptone method, ultrasound method, ultrasound scanning method, LDH method, rectal palpation method, CL palpation method, radioautography, serum creatine test, serum globulin test, chlormadine method, CAP method, Medata Do, pp.ers method, body fluid test, Plasma oCS detection method, ERIA, LHRH method, negative latex cogulation test and oestrone sulphate detection method. The most reliable methods with high a, pp.icability to farm animals such as sheep, mare, sow and cow are rectal palpation, ultrasound method and hormonal assay in blood and milk. However, they require complicated laboratory works for the early diagnosis of pregnancy and in most cases, the simple and economical methods which are described up to now need a long period of time after conception. Generally, it is possible to detect pregnancy after one estrus cycle, even though it varies depending on the species of animals. For improvement of the reproductive efficiency, it is required to develop a more accurate, economical, simple and early detectable method. It is anticipated that the result of a study on the detection method of EPF(early pregnancy factor) would be a, pp.icable to various animals within 6 hours after conception.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.1496-1501
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• 2002

A $2{\times}3$ factorial arrangement of treatments was used in a completely randomized design to determine the effects of dietary Zn on performance and immune response of acutely endotoxemic growing pigs (n=96, mean BW=24.9 kg). Factors included 1) intramuscular injection of $10{\mu}g/kg$ BW of Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or control and 2) supplemental Zn at 10, 50, or 150 ppm. Diets were fed beginning after weaning (initial body weight=7.6 kg) in the nursery and continued for 16 d into the grower phase. The basal corn-soybean meal grower diet contained 1% lysine and 34.3 ppm Zn. Pigs were acclimated for 12 d in the growerfinishing facility before LPS treatment on d 13. Gain, feed intake, and feed efficiency were unaffected by dietary Zn. Feed intake decreased (p<0.10) and gain/feed was greater (p<0.10) from d 13 to d 16 for pigs injected with LPS. Serum Zn and alkaline phosphatase activity increased (p<0.05) with increasing Zn levels. The febrile response to LPS peaked at 6 h post exposure and pigs were afebrile within 12 h. Rectal temperature was greater (p<0.05) in pigs receiving 50 and 150 ppm Zn than in pigs supplemented with 10 ppm Zn. In vivo cellular immune response, measured on d 13 by skin thickness response to phytohemagglutinin (PHA), was greater after 6 h (p<0.05) in pigs fed 10 ppm Zn and exposed to LPS compared to all other treatments, but was not affected at 12, 24 or 48 h. Zinc did not affect mitogen induced lymphocyte proliferation. Zinc supplemented at 50 or 150 ppm resulted in an enhanced febrile response in pigs subjected to iatrogenic endotoxemia, but did not affect pig performance or immune response measurements.

• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.17.1-17.10
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• 2022

Background: Inspection of livestock farms using surveillance cameras is emerging as a means of early detection of transboundary animal disease such as African swine fever (ASF). Object tracking, a developing technology derived from object detection aims to the consistent identification of individual objects in farms. Objectives: This study was conducted as a preliminary investigation for practical application to livestock farms. With the use of a high-performance artificial intelligence (AI)-based 3D depth camera, the aim is to establish a pathway for utilizing AI models to perform advanced object tracking. Methods: Multiple crossovers by two humans will be simulated to investigate the potential of object tracking. Inspection of consistent identification will be the evidence of object tracking after crossing over. Two AI models, a fast model and an accurate model, were tested and compared with regard to their object tracking performance in 3D. Finally, the recording of pig pen was also processed with aforementioned AI model to test the possibility of 3D object detection. Results: Both AI successfully processed and provided a 3D bounding box, identification number, and distance away from camera for each individual human. The accurate detection model had better evidence than the fast detection model on 3D object tracking and showed the potential application onto pigs as a livestock. Conclusions: Preparing a custom dataset to train AI models in an appropriate farm is required for proper 3D object detection to operate object tracking for pigs at an ideal level. This will allow the farm to smoothly transit traditional methods to ASF-preventing precision livestock farming.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2007

국내 지역을 경기도, 강원도, 충청도, 전라도, 경상도로 크게 5그룹으로 구분한 후 각각을 2곳의 군단위로 나누어 총 10곳의 지역으로 구분한 뒤, 국내 축산의 주요 축종인 소, 돼지, 닭 축사를 중심으로 분변, 퇴비, 축산인의 손, 지하수, 토양, 하천에서 E. coli 197균주, S. aureus 42균주, C. jejuni/coli 13균주, E. faecium/faecalis 223균주를 분리하여 항생제 감수성 시험을 실시하였다. 모니터링 결과 축산환경에서 분리된 균 중 한 가지 이상의 항생제에 대한 내성율은 E. coli 69.4%(137균주), S. aureus 78.6%(33균주), C. jejuni/coli 100%(13균주), E. faecium/faecalis 82.1%(183균주)를 나타내었다. 또한 4계열 이상의 항생제 내성이 있는 다제 내성율은 각각 19.2%(38균주), 11.9%(5균주), 15.4%(2균주), 6.2%(14균주)였다. 그리고 환경 중에서 VREF 2개 균주를 분리하였다. 축종별 항생제 사용추이를 살펴보면, 소, 돼지, 닭 및 수산용 등 주요 사육가축에 한정하여 판매량을 조사한 결과 소의 경우 01년부터 연도별로 6%, 9%, 8% 판매, 돼지 경우 01년부터 연도별로 57%, 56%, 55% 판매, 닭의 경우 01년부터 연도별로 23%, 23%, 26% 판매, 수산용의 경우 01년부터 연도별로 14%, 12%, 11%판매된 것으로 조사되었다[18]. 이는 소축사 환경에서 분리한 균이 돼지나 닭 축사 환경에서 분리한 균보다 내성율이 낮게 나타나 항생제 사용량과 관계가 있는 것을 추측할 수 있었다. 전체적으로 분리된 균의 내성율이 임상에서 분리되는 균의 항생제 내성율에 비해서는 낮게 검출되었다. 그러나 하천, 토양, 축산인의 손, 지하수 등에서 분리된 균의 항생제 내성회득 결과는 동물의 분변 등 환경관리에 대한 좀 더 많은 관심과 정책이 필요할 것으로 사료되었다 또한 축산 환경에서 분리된 내성균이 많지 않은 국내 현실을 감안할 때 본 연구에서 분리된 균주들은 향후 항생제 내성균 전파 경로를 추적하는 좋은 연구 자료가 될 것으로 사료되었다.

• 한국축산시설환경학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.181-188
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• 2011

돈분뇨 슬러리 2차 처리수를 대상으로 하여 오존과 과산화수소 등을 적용한 시험결과를 요약한 주요결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 동일한 시료에 동일한 처리시간 동안 처리하였을 경우, 주입한 오존 농도에 따라 처리수의 색도변화가 육안적으로 쉽게 확인할 정도의 차이를 나타냈다. 2. BOD와 COD 그리고 색도는 처리시간이 경과함에 따라 8.4 g/hr 오존 주입 수준에서의 제거효과가 다른 처리구에 비해 크게 나타났다. 반면에 SS는 오존 적용농도에 큰 영향을 받지 않는 것으로 나타났고, 질소와 인도 오존처리 효율이 높지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 3. 돈분뇨 슬러리 2차 처리수에 오존을 적용할 경우 색도 등 오염성 물질 제거효과와 더불어 생물학적 안정성 확보도 가능한 것으로 판단된다. 4. 돈분뇨 슬러리 3차 처리수에 과산화수소수를 첨가할 경우 2차 오염에 의한 잔존세균의 감소효과 및 암모니아 발산감소로 인해 돈분뇨 2차 및 3차 처리수의 중수도 개념으로서의 재활용 가능성에 대한 긍정적 요인으로 작용할 수 있는 것으로 판단된다.