A study of the tissue depletion of florfenicol (FFC) administered orally to pigs at a dose of 0.05 kg/ton feed for 7 days was performed. Sixteen healthy cross swine were administered with FFC. Four treated animals were arbitrarily selected to be sacrificed 1, 3 and 5 days after the end of treatment. FFC residue concentrations in muscle, liver, kidney, and fat were determined using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with ultraviolet photometric detector at 230 nm. The correlation coefficient (R2) of the calibration curve for florfenicol amine (FFCa) was > 0.997 and the limits of detection and quantification were 0.012 and 0.040 μg/mL, respectively. Recovery rates in swine edible tissues ranged from 79.1 to 93.5%. In the FFC-treated group, FFC residues at 3 days post-treatment were below the maximum residue limits (MRLs) in muscle, kidney and fat, and those at 5 days post-administration were below the MRLs in all edible tissues. These results suggest that the withdrawal period of FFC after the drug treatment might be 5 days, which is a sufficient amount of time for reduction of the FFC residues below the MRLs in all edible tissues.

This study was conducted to investigate effects of dietary anthocyanin fortified barley (AFB) or whole crop barley (WCB) on growing performance, meat quality and blood properties in swine at late fattening phase. Swine performance was not significantly differed (p>0.05) but average daily gain and average daily feed intake tended to increase in treatments. Meat quality parameters including pH, cooking loss, shear force and meat surface color were not influenced by the addition of barley in diet. However, DPPH content of longgissmus dorsi muscle was significantly increased in WCB10 compared to control, AFB5 and WCB5 (p<0.05). FRAP content of longgissmus dorsi muslce was higher in WCB5 than the AFB (p<0.05), thereby, a tendency in FRAP was not similar to that of DPPH. Only myristic acid (C14:0) was affected, and the lowest myristic acid was found when AFB was supplied to swine. A tendency was not determined in total protein and HDL-cholesterol content, however, control, WCB10 and AFB5 had high in total protein and showed significantly low values in HDL-cholesterol. Therefore, the results indicate that barley can be considered as an ingredient in swine diet, but further investigation is necessary.

This study was carried out to investigate the distribution of disqualified boars tested on performance at the Second Korea Swine Testing Station from 2007 to 2009. Data used in this study were 6,758 records of Duroc, Landrace and Yorkshire breeding stocks which were registered in the herd book of the Korea Animal Improvement Association. Duroc breeding stocks tested performance were vastly outnumbered by Landrace and Yorkshire breeding stocks tested on performance. In disqualifying boars tested on performance, the Yorkshire was the most breeding stock. In the disqualifying factor in 2007, the shortage of index was the most factor. And the most of the disqualifying factors in 2008 and 2009 was the excess of daily age as reaching with 90㎏ body weight.

본 연구는 1999년부터 2001년까지 경남에 있는 K 종돈장의 Yorkshire(Y), Landrace(L), Duroc(D), L×Y and Y×L 5품종 종빈돈 3,893복의 분만성적인 복당 총산자수, 복당 포유개시두수, 복당 사산두수, 복당 미이라두수, 복당 포유개시체중 및 1회 종부 후 분만율에 영향하는 교배조합, 분만년도, 분만계절 및 분만 산차의 효과를 추정하였다. 교배조합의 효과는 각 형질에 대하여 교배조합별로 순종은 복당 총산자수, 복당 포유개시두수와 복당 미이라두수에서 다소 유의적(p<0.05)인 차이를 보였으며, 교잡종에 있어서는 유의적인 차이가 없었다(p<0.05). 분만년도의 효과는 여러 연구자의 보고와 상이한 결과를 보였는데, 복당 총산자수는 1999년 및 2001년이 2000년도에 비해 유의하게(p<0.05) 높았다. 분만 계절의 효과는 복당 총산자수를 제외한 각 형질에 대하여 유의하게(p<0.05) 영향하는 것으로 나타났다. 복당 총산자수는 4～7산차에서 유의하게(p<0.05) 높게 나타났으며, 7산차 성적이 가장 우수하고, 1산차 성적이 가장 저조했다. 이는 조사대상 집단에 대한 점진적인 관리 환경 개선과 모돈 자체에 대한 체계적인 사양관리의 개선 때문이라고 사료된다.