Immunity – some further thoughts

At various moments, our pig management expert has touched on the topic of immunity and how proper pig house management can help achieve a high immunity status. Just how clean is clean, he wonders. Well, it can be measured… Ask any producer or section head what is the benefit of a good immune threshold and the invariable reply is, “Better protection from disease.” Excellent! Then ask, “What benefits arise from this?” and of course a host of advantages appear. Again excellent. The respo