5 questions on promoting resilience in grow-finisher pigs

Prevention in animal health should not only focus on biosecurity. Resilience in animals should also play a role. That was the key message of the PhD thesis of Dr Ingrid van Dixhoorn, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands. How would you define resilience? “Resilience is the ability of the animals themselves to deal with deviations, to remain healthy — and/or, in case they do fall ill, to be able to recover quickly. So, we focus on the animals’ abilities and less on the pa