Food waste and pigs Ashley Jordan Veterinary Officer Supporting your success
Pig diet and feeding behaviour Pigs are omnivores and will eat just about anything. Some pigs will prey on poultry and the young of other livestock. Pigs will root around and turn over soil in search of food. Commercial pigs are fed specially formulated pellets or grain. Pigs eat A LOT
Feeding restrictions for pigs Food scraps that contain meat or that have had contact with meat can cause severe diseases in pigs. Feeding food scraps to pigs is the most likely way exotic viruses such as footand-mouth disease could enter Australia. The devastating outbreak of foot-andmouth disease in the United Kingdom in 2001 started from illegal swill feeding. Supporting your success
Biosecurity and Agricultural Management (Agricultural Standards) Regulations 2013- r34-36 Swill feeding ban Prohibited feed is any food that contains meat or any other material from mammals or has had contact with these substances (swill) e.g. food scraps, untreated cooking oil, garbage etc. foreign dairy products According to the regulations it is illegal to: o feed prohibited feed to pigs o allow pigs to access prohibited feed o collect and store prohibited feed for feeding to pigs o supply prohibited feed for feeding to pigs. Exceptions commercially manufactured meat meals and tallow produced according to the Australian Standard for the Hygienic Rendering of Animal Products (AS 5008:2007) milk and milk products from Australia or imported into Australia for stock feed use used cooking oil processed according to the National Standard for Recycling of Used Cooking Fats and Oils Intended for Animal Feeds and where the oil has only been used for cooking in Australia.
Swill feeding 1805 - swill is a food the most natural and healthy you can give him Swill feeding has been practiced for a long time all over the world. Supporting your success
Exotic diseases foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) African swine fever classical swine fever swine vesicular disease Aujesky s disease (pseudorabies)
Foot-and-mouth disease FMD is a highly contagious viral disease of cloven-hoofed livestock, including: pigs cattle sheep camelids (alpaca, llama, camels) deer Vesicles in oral cavity, tongue, feet and teats Spread by animal-to-animal contact, animal products (meat, milk), mechanically on hands, feet, clothing, vehicles and airborne High morbidity, low mortality FMD has not occurred in Australia (since 1872) How is it most likely to enter Australia? = SWILL FEEDING
FMD FMD is the most important biosecurity threat to Australia s livestock industries because it is highly contagious and spreads quickly and would have significant effects on trade and the economy. UK 2001-4 million animals slaughtered for disease control - 2.5 million animals slaughtered for welfare - cost USD $20b Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) report indicates a large-scale FMD outbreak would cost AUD $52b over 10 years
FMD in the world Source: OIE World Animal Health database 2013
Foot-and-mouth disease is the most significant threat to our livestock industries Foot-and-mouth disease
Cattle: FMD lesions Day One Day Two/Three Day Two/Three Day Four/Five Day Seven Day Seven
Smallholder landscape Smallholders hobby farmers ethnic groups personal consumption Mundijong markets Gumtree, Quokka pet pig owners often flown in from eastern Australia miniature pigs more likely to feed swill Five months on he is now fully fledged polka-dot swine, weighing in at 200kg. "It has become quite a big commitment, he eats a lot of food. "We feed him grains and muesli and we also get help from the local lunch bar, with their leftovers.
Rabies Japanese encephalitis Vesicular stomatitis Swine vesicular disease Pseudorabies (Aujesky's disease) Nipah Trichinosis Cysticercosis Influenza Menangle Anthrax Brucellosis Salmonella spp. Campylobacter spp. Yersinia enterocolitica Listeria monocytogenes Erysipelas Leptospirosis Toxoplasmosis Ringworm Crypstosporidiosis Giardiasis Q fever Streptococcus suis Pasteurella spp. (pig bites) Zoonoses
How can I help? Educate food outlets and livestock owners on the swill feeding ban and why it is important. inform of alternative use of scraps o scraps to chickens o compost Report if you see signs of FMD or animal deaths Report if you suspect swill feeding noncompliance.
Who do I call? Animal disease Emergency Animal Disease Hotline DAFWA field veterinary officer Swill feeding DAFWA field veterinary officer Welfare RSPCA o 9209 9300 (Perth) o 1300 CRUELTY (1300 278 3589)
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