Podcast: Ireland and zero zinc in nursery diets

The Real P3 podcast series is a recent initiative, where pork professionals from all over the world are interviewed about challenges and solutions in their day-to-day work.

Removing zinc oxide from nursery diets

In this 6th episode of the podcast series, Dr Casey Bradley talks to Colin Twomey, age 25, who runs a 200 sow farrow-to-finish operation in Co. Cork, southern Ireland. He read animal and crop production at University College, Dublin, Ireland and is following a PhD focusing to remove therapeutic levels of zinc oxide from nursery diets.

The farm was set up by Twomey’s father in 1994 which was initially set up as a finishing farm. When he started working for the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Teagasc), he learnt about the opportunity to do a PhD in zinc oxide reduction.

Previous episodes of the Real P3 podcast

In the previous weeks, Pig Progress published earlier episodes of the Real P3 podcast series:

• the prologue of the pocast series;
• Episode 1: Mihaela Angheluta, Denmark;
• Episode 2: Christine Snowden, Ohio, United States;
• Episode 3: Johan Odendall, Zimbabwe;
• Episode 4: James Lamb, North Carolina, United States;
• Episode 5: Dr Wayne Johnson, China.