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Strengthen Care for Feverish Pigs: Daily Nursing Cannot Be Neglected
The normal body temperature of pigs is 38-40°C; if it persistently exceeds 40°C, it is considered a fever. Prolonged continuous high fever accelerates the body's catabolism, disrupts digestive function, lowers resistance, and can even cause coma or heart failure. The treatment principles for feverish pigs are as follows: immediately isolate the feverish pig, and thoroughly disinfect the contaminated environment. Before the cause is identified, as long as the fever is not excessively high, generally do not use antipyretic drugs at will. While using antibacterial drugs, attention should be paid to supplementing nutrition.
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How to Select Replacement Pigs? Detailed Guide to Selection Methods and Key Points
Replacement pigs refer to the boars and sows that have finished the nursing stage and are initially kept for breeding purposes. Generally speaking, family pig farmers like to select and keep their own breeding boars and sows as replacement pigs. So, what kind of replacement pigs should be selected and kept? Experts advise you: replacement pigs should be breeding pigs that are physically robust, well developed, possess the characteristics of the breed, and have high breeding value. The selection of replacement breeding pigs should start from the following points. Healthy and disease-free: replacement pigs should be pigs with normal growth and development, lively spirits, and free from disease, and should come from families free of any
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Grass Species for Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Rabbits and Geese and Their Cultivation Techniques
1. Growing grass to feed cattle: Mexican corn, alfalfa (Medicago sativa), tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea), napier grass (Pennisetum), Sudan grass (Sorghum sudanense) and others may be chosen; succulent leafy forage grasses with a high crude fiber content should not be planted. Mexican corn is suitable for planting in areas with annual rainfall of more than 800 mm and a frost-free period of more than 180 days. When the plant height reaches 1.5 m, it can be cut once a month. The dry matter of the forage contains 9.5% crude protein, 2.6% crude fat and 27.3% crude fiber. The stems and leaves are tender, crisp and juicy, sweet in taste and highly palatable, and are also suitable for silage or for curing into hay.
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What drugs are used to treat infectious respiratory diseases in pigs
Infectious respiratory diseases in pigs are common diseases in pig farming, with rhinitis and pneumonia being the most common, and the shared symptoms are coughing, sneezing, and difficulty breathing. Pigs of different ages and breeds can all be infected, and the infection spreads quickly and affects large numbers. Infectious respiratory diseases in pigs have the following characteristics: First, the pathogens are complex, often not caused by the same one or several kinds of bacteria, but closely related to multiple factors in the environment, and clinical symptoms appear only when certain environmental, management, and feeding factors change.
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Effective proven remedies for treating respiratory diseases in pigs
I. Proven remedies for treating pig colds: 1. Intramuscular injection of 30% analgin or 10% aminopyrine 5-10ml, while orally administering aspirin 2-5g, and feeding plenty of warm, clean drinking water; intramuscular injection of antibiotics to prevent infection. 2. An appropriate amount of Sichuan pepper, lightly fried and ground into powder. Make a small cut at the tip of the pig's tail, stuff the Sichuan pepper into the opening, and bandage the outside with cloth. 3. Radish 1kg cut into shreds, scallions 10 stalks, ginger 15g, decocted in water for oral administration; or use gypsum 15g decocted in water, strain off the residue, and after it cools add mung bean powder 100g and 2 egg whites, mix and administer by gavage.
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Why do pigs grind their teeth? The main causes are these
1. Single feed and malnutrition. It is best to feed pigs compound feed. When feeding concentrated feed, it should be paired with green and coarse feed, and minerals and trace elements should be added in appropriate amounts. For example, adding 1%-2% mineral feed to the pig's diet, such as bone meal, calcium hydrogen phosphate, eggshell powder, etc., and adding 0.25%-0.5% salt, etc., has a certain effect on preventing pigs from grinding their teeth. 2. Chronic indigestion in pigs. For pigs with indigestion, the stomach should be strengthened and appetite stimulated. For pigs weighing more than 10 kg, use 0.3 g
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Several Considerations for Fine Management of Nursery Pigs
In today's large-scale farms, most use excellent breeds and lines with high production performance, and sows have relatively high litter sizes and survival rates. So what is the key stage that determines whether farming succeeds? Practice shows it is the nursery stage of piglets. The nursery stage is a transfer station, generally starting 7-10 days after weaning and ending at a body weight of 30 kg. This is the key stage affecting the profitability of the entire farm. This stage is a turning point in the pig's physiology and individual changes, a process of gradual growth from small to large. This stage both
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How to observe sick pigs? Master these methods to detect pig diseases early
Check the demeanor. Healthy pigs are spirited, with tails raised and swinging freely; sick pigs are listless, move slowly, prefer to lie still, and have drooping tails. Check the appetite. Healthy pigs have a strong appetite; sick pigs show a sudden loss of appetite, abnormal eating habits, or even stop eating. If a pig's appetite decreases and it drinks a lot of water, it is mostly a febrile disease. Check nasal discharge. Healthy pigs have no nasal discharge; if a pig has clear nasal discharge, it is mostly a wind-cold cold, thick and sticky nasal discharge indicates heat in the lungs, and nasal discharge containing foam indicates diseases such as pulmonary edema or chronic bronchitis. Check the feces. Heal
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Reasonable pig feed formulation is the only way to prevent pigs from losing their appetite
When the temperature rises above 35°C, pigs have low feed utilization and slow weight gain. Therefore, in hot seasons, different feeding methods should be given according to different categories of pigs and different physiological stages of pigs. Boars: feed 2 times a day, and add green feed or thin feed at noon. Mating and exercise are both carried out in the morning and evening; after mating, do not immediately let them go into water to wallow or spray them with cold water. From 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. every day, spray water once on the pigs' bodies and the ground, and reduce light to 8-10 hours. If the number of matings is low, the amount of concentrated feed should be reduced to prevent overfattening and poor libido.
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What are some pig-herding techniques? A few tricks to teach you how to herd pigs with ease
1. Design a path for the pigs: whether entering the pig house or loading onto a truck when selling pigs, there should be a human-designed path, and the walls of this path are best made of fixed, sturdy walls; if there are none, temporary walls can be used, such as replacing them with iron railings, replacing them with long strips of colorful cloth (feed packaging bags can also be sewn together into long strips of cloth), or using other opaque boards, so that the pigs can see that only moving forward is the right way, and in this way the pigs will generally follow the path designed for them; this method is quite practical when moving sows between groups. 2. Temporary wall
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