PIG BREEDING, ADVICE, AND ECOPATHOLOGY

Innovation, quality, variety and flexibility of production require sim ultaneously an improvement of professional skills and an increase in c ooperation. However, this cooperation should not be reduced to a mere data exchange, but must extend to a co-construction of new representat ions and new action schemes. In this way, health advising integrates p roduction and knowledge apprenticeship, which we studied using a didac tic approach (from the knowledge point of view). In this article, we w ill establish that animal ecopathology, by the standardization of the breeding description through diagnostic activity, has contributed to t he strengthening of the cooperation between the breeder and the practi cian.