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- Hi this is Sarah Mikesell[br]with thepigsite.com

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and today we're here with Nate Jackman.

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He is a livestock specialist[br]with MWI Veterinarian Supply.

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Thanks for being with us today, Nate.

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- Thank you.

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- So you're out with farmers, producers,

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on a daily basis with your position.

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Tell us a little bit about[br]what trends you're seeing.

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What industry trends[br]are going on out there.

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- Well currently, one thing I've been

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talking a lot about with[br]veterinarians and producers

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is iron deficiency in baby pigs.

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Something we've been[br]doing is we've been going

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into some producers, into some sal units

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and we've been doing hemoglobin tests

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on these baby pigs and[br]what we've been finding

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is that these pigs are[br]anemic and deficient in iron

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and that we're trying to[br]get the word out there

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that the weening weight of[br]a baby pig is a lot greater

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than it was 30, 40 years ago.

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But our protocol, there's a[br]lot of protocols out there

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still recommending the same amount of iron

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that we gave them 30-40 years ago.

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So what we're doing is we're testing pigs,

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baby pigs, healthy, big, baby pigs

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and we're finding that[br]those pigs are anemic

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and they need another dose of iron

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so what we're recommending[br]to veterinarians

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and producers is that we[br]give a 200 milligram dose

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at day one and we give[br]another 200 milligram dose

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at day 14 and give that pig enough iron

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before we ween that pig and[br]send it off to the nursery.

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So that's one thing that[br]I've been talking a lot about

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and fortunately I work[br]with a lot of producers

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that are open to that,[br]open to the fact that,

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hey show me something that's not working

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that we're doing and let's try to fix it

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and we've been doing pin side tests,

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in these sal units, and[br]testing them with a HemoCue,

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a hemoglobin test unit.[br]- Yep.

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- A two or three minute[br]test, and we find out

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if that pig is deficient[br]or not and we kind of

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pick pigs at random and[br]then we show the data

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to them afterwards and show them, that yes

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these pigs are anemic.

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So that's one of the[br]trends going on right now.

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I don't think that out[br]of a half a dozen farms

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that we've been on that[br]we really been surprised

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but we have surprised our producers

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and I think we've changed a lot of minds

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and a lot of protocols.

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- It sounds like diagnostics is playing

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a bigger role in what[br]you're doing these days.

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- Yes ma'am, that diagnostics is big,

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because it's not so much the sales rep

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coming in here saying,[br]hey you gotta do this,

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you gotta do this, and they think okay,

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the sales rep just[br]trying to sell products.

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What we're trying to do is[br]let the science prove itself.

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Here's the data and these[br]are your pigs we're testing

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so we're just letting the[br]science speak for itself.

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- Very good, excellent, well thank you

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so much for your time today Nate.

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- Thank you.

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- Very good, this is Sarah[br]Mikesell, with thepigsite.com.