[Breeding, advice and ecopathology. A didactic approach to situations involving breeding diagnosis in swine...

Innovation, quality, variety and flexibility of production require simultaneously an improvement of professional skills and an increase in cooperation. However, this cooperation should not be reduced to a mere data exchange, but must extend to a co-construction of new representations and new action schemes. In this way, health advising integrates production and knowledge apprenticeship, which we studied using a didactic approach (from the knowledge point of view). In this article, we will establish that animal ecopathology, by the standardization of the breeding description through diagnostic activity, has contributed to the strengthening of the cooperation between the breeder and the practicien.