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Traceability: Locating And Controlling Disease Along The Food Chain

You may have never heard of traceability, but it plays a very important role in managing animal health and food safety in Canada.

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Ensuring Animal Welfare On Canadian Farms

Animal welfare is a term that covers both the physical and mental wellbeing of an animal. Good animal welfare means an animal is growing or producing normally, is healthy, free from pain and injury and displays normal behaviour.

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Biosecurity: Keeping Animals Healthy On Canadian Farms

Biosecurity refers to procedures that prevent the introduction of diseases and reduce the frequency and severity of infection when they occur.

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Ensuring Farm Animal Care

Codes Of Practice: The Building Blocks that Ensure Farm Animal Care.

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Poultry Housing In Canada – Where And How Do Chickens Live?

Farmers in Canada raise two types of chickens – those produced for meat and those that lay eggs. And although they’re both poultry, there are some differences in how they live on Canadian farms.

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Antibiotics in Food- Should you be Concerned?

All Canadian farming practices ensure that your food is free of antibiotic residues and safe to eat.  

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Chicken Farm Takes it Full Circle

Six or seven times a year, about 90,000 freshly-hatched chicks are dropped off at the Martinka broiler chicken operation. The Martinka family has been in the chicken business for 15 years.

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Meet a Canadian Chicken Farmer

Evesque loves working with these birds and appreciates the opportunity to produce a product consumers want. Evesque produces 50,000 kilograms of chicken every few months.

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Tour a Rotary Milking Parlour

Take a tour of a dairy farm and learn how dairy cows are raised and cared for in Canada.

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Tour a Broiler Hatching Egg Farm

Tour a broiler hatching egg farm who raise the chickens that produce broiler eggs instead of the kind of eggs that you buy in the grocery store.

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What is a broiler hatching egg farm?

On broiler breeding farms, the chickens grow from chicks a few days old until they are ready to start laying eggs that will hatch into broiler chickens.

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Ask an Expert: What do you do when pigs get sick?

We asked veterinarian Dr. Matheus Costa, who specializes in swine health at the University of Saskatchewan: what do you do when pigs get sick?

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Ask an Expert: What do pigs eat?

We asked Denise Beaulieu, an assistant professor on monogastric nutrition at the University of Saskatchewan: What do pigs eat?

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Meet a Canadian Cattle Rancher

Meet Erika Stewart, a rancher in Saskatchewan and the Provincial Coordinator for Verified Beef Production Plus (VBP+) program.

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Ask an Expert: Where do pigs live?

We asked an expert at the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Yolande Seddon: ‘Where do pigs live?’

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Ask an Expert: How many litters do pigs have in a year?

We asked Dawn Friesen a production manager at Fast Genetics: ‘How many litters do pigs have in a year?’

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Learn more about a Water Buffalo farm

Tour a Water Buffalo farm and see for yourself what they look like and how they are cared for in Canada.

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How are Dairy Goats Cared for?

Tour a dairy goat farm and learn how goats are cared for in Canada.

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Learn more about Raising Veal Cattle

A lot of care and work go into raising veal cattle and it shows with these two clean and well run farms. Take a tour to learn more about veal cattle.

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Pork From Farm to Table

There are more than 7,000 pig farms across Canada that raise more than 25.5 million animals a year. Learn how pork gets from farm to table.

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