Purdue Pork Page Archive

The Purdue Pork Page was retired in 2019. It has been replaced by the new Swine @ Purdue site.

There has been some interest in the content that was on the old page. Many of the articles and informational material are available on this archive site.

Links to Purdue Sites

Purdue Extension Publications - many are free, others are available for purchase

Purdue Swine Day Reports - from 1995 to 2003

Sites and Computer Programs

• CFOs: Confined Feeding Operations
• Hydrologic Impacts of Land Use Changes and Practices
• Indiana Farmstead Assessment System
• Manure Management Planner
• Purdue Agricultural Air Quality Laboratory
• Livestock Odor Setback Model
• Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture
• Purdue Manure Management Information Resource

Archived Articles and Information

Economics

• Risk Awareness Checklist

Genetics

• Characteristics of Genotypes for Profitable High Health Status Pork Production
• Evaluation of the Use of Superior Maternal Sires in Terminal Crossbreeding Systems
• Implementation of Terminal Crossbreeding Systems
• Utilizing Artificial Insemination While Applying Genetic Principles

Growth and Carcass Composition

• Comparison of Fat-Free Lean Versus Lipid-Free Soft Tissue Growth
• Concepts of Pig Growth and Composition
• Effects of Genotype, Sex, Slaughter Weight and Dietary Fat on Pig Growth, Carcass Composition, and Pork Quality
• Environment and Genotype Effects on Pig Growth and Carcass Composition
• Modeling Genetic and Environmental Effects on Pig Lean Growth
• Potential Means to Reduce Biases in Estimating Carcass Value
• Prediction of Daily Protein Accretion in Pigs from Estimates of Fat-Free Lean Gain
• Swine Lean Growth and Pork Quality Evaluation Trials
• Using Growth and Feed Intake Data to Improve the Efficiency of Lean Pork Production

Health

• The Concept of SEW and the Rules to Make it Work
• Growing/Finishing Diarrheal Diseases
• Growing/Finishing Respiratory Diseases
• How to Identify Lice on Swine
• Medication Withdrawal Times, A-L
• Medication Withdrawal Times, M-Z
• Neonatal Diarrhea
• Parasites in Swine
• Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex
• Problems with Start-Ups and Conversions!
• SEW and Porcine Respriatory Disease Complex
• Sow Abortion and Mortality Syndrome
• Abstracts:
• The Influence of Growth Promotant Antibiotics and Management System on Presence and Prevalence of Salmonella in Swine

Manure Management

• How-To Monitor and Protect Earthen Lagoon Berms
• Swine Lagoon Design Volume
• Swine Manure Nutrient Tables
• Viability of Bioaerosols Produced from a Swine Facility

Nutrition

• Evaluation of Three Genetic Populations of Pigs for Response to Increasing Levels of Paylean™
• Impact and Use of Paylean in Market Pigs
• Optimal Paylean™ Sequence (Step-up/Step-down) when Fed to Late-Finishing Swine
• Ractopamine, Response, Economics, and Issues
• Abstracts:
• Bioavailability of Tryptophan in Soybean Meal for 10-kg Pigs Using Slope-Ratio Assay
• Dietary Lysine and Threonine Utilization by Young Pigs: Efficiency for Carcass Growth
• Digestive Utilization of Minerals for Weanling Pigs Fed Copper- and Phytase-Supplemented Diets
• Effects of Tannin on Porcine Jejunal Brush Border Membrane-Bound Enzyme Activities
• Energy Concentration of High-Oil Corn Varieties for Pigs
• The Response of 10-kg Pigs to Increasing Dietary Threonine Levels
• The Response of 10-kg Pigs to Increasing Levels of Dietary Lysine
• Threonine and Total Sulfur Amino Acids to Lysine Ratio in Corn- and Pearl Millet-Based Diets for Growing and Finishing Pigs
• Tryptophan Bioavailability in Soybean Meal for Young Pigs

Reproduction

• AI Program Evaluation Checklist
• Artificial Insemination
• Boar Anatomy
• Development and Use of Sow Cooling Pads During Farrowing and Lactation
• Failure of Progesterone to Counteract Zearalenone Toxicoses During Early Pregnancy in Gilts
• A Guide to Basic Boar Semen Collection, Evaluation and Processing Procedures
• How to Manage Difficult Farrowings
• Heat Detection: Signs of Estrus
• Reproductive Physiology and Anatomy of the Sow
• Sow/Gilt Anatomy
• Timing of Estradiol Injections Required to Induce Short and Long Pseudopregnancy in Gilts
• Training Boars for Semen Collection
• Abstracts:
• Failure of Vitamin A to Alter Litter Size in Swine When Injected at Breeding and Various Stages of Gestation
• Lack of a Nocturnal Rise in Serum Concentrations of Melatonin Preceding the Onset of Puberty in Gilts
• Reproductive and Lean Growth Performance of Gilts Reared in All-In/All-Out Facilities: Effect of Vaccination Against Mycoplasmal hyopneumoniae and Exposure to Ammonia

If there's something you remember from the Pork Page but can't find it here, contact dlofgren@purdue.edu.