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What are the treatment methods for photosensitivity in pigs?
Treatment methods for photosensitivity in pigs: 1. Change the feed and avoid direct sunlight. 2. Vegetable oil 50 to 100 ml, artificial salt 30 to 50 g, administered by gavage once. 3. Wash the skin with 5% lime water, then apply 10% ichthammol ointment. 4. Diphenhydramine hydrochloride 50 mg, oral or intramuscular injection. 5. 10% calcium gluconate 50 to 100 ml, intravenous injection. 6. Menthol 0.2 g, zinc oxide 2 g, petrolatum 20 g, mixed into an ointment; after washing the skin with lime water, apply the ointment.
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What are the prevention and control measures for heat stress in pigs during summer?
Heat stress refers to the sum of non-specific physiological responses made by an organism subjected to extremely high environmental temperatures in response to any demand the thermal environment places on it. With the rapid development of intensive high-density rearing methods, most southern regions increasingly and urgently need to alleviate the environmental pressure that summer high temperatures place on the pig farming industry, and the climate in the north also shows an upward trend; in recent years the highest temperature in Beijing has also reached over 40 degrees. The decline in pig productivity caused by heat stress has also increasingly drawn the attention of researchers in livestock environment and feed nutrition. Scholars from Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries
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Analysis of the reasons why first-time mother pigs refuse to nurse
For first-time mother pigs refusing to nurse, the solutions are: 1. Fix the nursing positions. After farrowing is complete, arrange the piglets around the lying sow with the weak ones in front and the strong ones behind, let them find the teats on their own, observe and adjust promptly, and after 2 to 3 days they will be fixed in an orderly arrangement. 2. Treat udder inflammation. Whenever the milk is plentiful and the piglets have just started sucking the teats, if the sow immediately lets out a scream, jumps up suddenly and even tries to bite the piglets, it means the sow has mastitis
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Ten observation points for sick pigs, so pig farmers can quickly identify swine diseases
At present, for rural farmers raising pigs, in terms of feeding and management, some people pour feed into the pig trough and turn around and leave, rarely paying attention to observing the pigs' growth and development or whether they show signs of illness. As a result, they do not know when a pig gets sick, and by the time the pig is down in the pen, it is too late and difficult to treat. To prevent disease before it occurs and treat it early when it does, symptoms must be discovered in time. Observation can be made from the following ten aspects. 1. Look at demeanor. Healthy pigs are spirited, with tails raised and swinging freely, while sick pigs are listless, slow to move, prefer lying still, and have drooping tails.
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How to treat lice in pigs? Early detection and early prevention and control are key
Pig lice (haematopinus, hog lice) are a type of wingless small insect that parasitizes the body surface of pigs, mostly parasitizing the armpits, inner thighs, lower jaw, lower neck, and the wrinkled areas of the skin on the lower side of the body, and are also numerous behind the ear flaps. Pig lice suck the blood of pigs, causing the pigs' skin to itch and their mood to become restless and agitated, and in severe cases they can also cause skin damage in pigs, emaciation and anemia, affecting the growth and development of pigs, and they can occur throughout all four seasons. Healthy pigs can be directly infected through contact with lice-carrying diseased pigs, and can also be indirectly infected through equipment, bedding straw, and the like. Pig lice reproduce quickly and are good at crawling, and once a pig is infected
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What are the treatment methods for gastric food stagnation in pigs?
Cause: Gastric food stagnation in pigs occurs when, after being starved, they are fed too much and overeat greedily, causing food to accumulate in the stomach. Symptoms: The sick pig's appetite decreases or stops, it sometimes vomits, the vomit is rather foul-smelling, the abdominal circumference is distended, the abdominal wall feels firm and painful on pressure examination, breathing is rapid, and body temperature is generally normal. Treatment: Formula 1: Mix 100 mL of vinegar and 15 g of salt into the feed and administer orally. Formula 2: Mash 250-500 g of green vegetables to extract juice, mix with 60-90 mL of sesame oil, and administer orally (this formula is the dosage for a 10-20 kg pig).
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How to treat common miscellaneous ailments in pigs? A few practical folk remedies to teach you
1. Common cold: ① Scallion white 90 g, ginger 60 g, add an appropriate amount of water and boil, use the hot water to fumigate the affected pig's mouth and nose, the effect is remarkable. ② Cocklebur fruit 25 g, fry until scorched and grind into powder, mix into feed and feed, 3 times a day. ③ Fennel 15 g, grind into powder after frying, add brown sugar 50 g, warm water 100 g and mix to feed. ④ Tea leaves 100 g, brew with boiling water, then add mung bean powder 200 g and alum 15 g and feed. 2. Mange (commonly known as scabies): ① Tobacco leaves 1 part, water 20 parts, boil for 1 hour, then remove the tobacco leaves and use the remaining water to wash the affected area. ② Use
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What are the prevention and treatment methods for furazolidone poisoning in pigs?
Furazolidone is commonly used to treat infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, such as paratyphoid in piglets. The dosage for pigs is 0.007 g per kg of body weight, given orally in 2 to 3 divided doses. Piglets are relatively sensitive to furazolidone, and when the fed dose is too large or it is used over a long period, it can cause acute or chronic poisoning. After poisoning, piglets show reduced appetite, weakness of the limbs, unsteady standing, swaying when walking, forelegs and hindlegs stretched outward, lowered skin temperature, slow responses, coma, and trembling of all body muscles. Necropsy of dead piglets reveals severe inflammation of the gastric fundus mucosa, with a band-shaped inflamed area running from the pylorus through the gastric fundus to the cardia, scattered with a small number of hemorrhagic spots of varying sizes, and the intestinal contents are golden yellow.
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What are the treatment methods for unknown high fever in pigs?
Postpartum fever in sows is a disease that easily occurs during the high-temperature period in summer and autumn. Within 1-3 days after farrowing, high fever caused by uterine infection is called postpartum fever. Clinical symptoms are as follows: elevated body temperature, 40.5-41.5°C, preference for lying down, reduced appetite or no eating, body trembling, accelerated breathing, reduced milk production, and purulent discharge flowing from the vulva. Postpartum fever in sows is often caused by inadequate disinfection during farrowing assistance. During farrowing, an oversized fetus injuring the birth canal, or the assistant's arm not being strictly disinfected and being inserted into the birth canal to probe, can both cause postpartum fever. Especially when the weather is hot and humid
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How to prevent and treat sick pigs? Prevention and treatment methods every pig farmer must learn
To treat sows with postpartum loss of appetite: decoct 80 g of Angelica sinensis, 40 g each of Poria cocos and Atractylodes macrocephala, 60 g of Astragalus membranaceus, and 50 g each of Codonopsis pilosula and Alpinia officinarum, and strain the liquid. Cook 250 g of raw mutton, take 1000 mL of the broth, mix it into the prepared decoction and administer by drenching, one dose per day; two doses bring recovery. To treat mastitis in pigs: take 50 g of Chinese gall, place it in a pot, add vinegar and stir-fry briefly into a powder; take 5 g each time and administer with rice water; three times bring recovery. To treat stubborn constipation: for large pigs, use 10-20 apricot kernels, let them eat freely, once daily, for 7 days
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