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What to do about coughing and wheezing in weaned piglets? Experience sharing on traditional Chinese medicine prevention and treatment in pig farming
Coughing and wheezing in piglets from 10 days after weaning to 30 kg body weight is usually associated in Western veterinary medicine with porcine postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (i.e. circovirus) infection, with an incidence rate ranging from 20 percent to 45 percent; the mortality rate of affected piglets is generally 30 percent, and can reach as high as 80 percent, with body temperature of 40.5°C to 41.5°C. Piglets show rough and disheveled coat, affected pigs have diarrhea combined with respiratory symptoms and neurological symptoms, severe emaciation, and death from exhaustion. This disease poses a very great threat to the pig farming industry. It is most severe in the three seasons of spring, autumn and winter. In traditional Chinese veterinary medicine theory, this disease belongs to warm disease symptoms; the cause is external contraction of wind pathogen invading the lung, and cold, summerheat, dryness, warmth and the like can all combine with it. The main site of the lesions is in the lung. In traditional Chinese veterinary medicine theory, lung qi governs respiration and opens into the nose, externally corresponding to the skin and hair, and governs the opening and closing of the interstices. When lung qi is sufficient, the opening and closing of the skin and interstices is normal, and external pathogens are not easily able to invade; otherwise the pig body is plagued by disease. Using Qingfei Zhike San combined with Maxing Shigan San with modifications, this formula can pungent-cool diffuse and vent, clear the lung and calm wheezing, clear and purge lung heat, and resolve phlegm and stop coughing. Add it to piglet feed as a powder at 0.6 percent, continuously for 2 to 3 weeks. In Western veterinary medicine theory, this formula is believed to have fairly strong antibacterial and inhibitory effects on Actinomyces pleuris, Staphylococcus aureus and Pneumococcus; this formula also has effects such as anti-influenza virus action, and also has obvious antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effects, and can improve the immune function within the animal body.
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What are the prevention and treatment methods for rheumatism in dairy cattle?
In traditional Chinese veterinary medicine, rheumatism is called bizheng (impediment disease). Modern medicine considers rheumatism to be a systemic allergic disease. It often affects muscles, joints and other parts. Although joint rheumatism in cattle is relatively rare, its harm is also quite serious if prevention and treatment are neglected. Causes The causative factors of rheumatism
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Methods for Preventing and Treating External Parasitic Diseases in Hwamei (Chinese Thrush) Breeding
I think many people are familiar with the hwamei. It is actually not especially cute in appearance, but because it has a line of white feathers above its eyes resembling an eyebrow, people named it the hwamei. The hwamei has excellent ornamental value, and many people who like keeping
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How to select and raise a hwamei (Chinese laughingthrush)? A step-by-step guide
The hwamei is actually a particularly endearing bird. It gets its name from the white ring around its eye, which extends backward from above the eye corner into a brow-like shape. Among cage-kept songbirds, the hwamei is considered the best. Because it has a gorgeous, beautiful physique, a sweet and moving song, and a wonderful name,
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How to keep a Hwamei (Chinese Thrush) through the winter? Key points of winter feeding and management techniques
Feeding and management of the Hwamei through the winter: Before the start of winter each year, most Hwamei birds have molted into new feathers; this natural instinct and change of plumage are of great significance to the Hwamei's overwintering. In winter, when the weather is cold, the ambient temperature is very important to the Hwamei
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How should feed be formulated in hwamei (Chinese laughingthrush) breeding?
The feed for hwamei should be comprehensively arranged and blended according to the food structure under wild conditions, combined with the actual situation of home rearing. (1) Main food composition The feed of artificially reared hwamei mainly includes cereal grains such as corn, rice, and millet, and supplementary animal feed includes eggs, breadworms, and other insects such as locusts, young cicadas, lvge, pine caterpillars, etc.
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Traditional Chinese medicine gives good results in treating postpartum diseases of sows
In pig farming, postpartum diseases of sows occur frequently. The author has used the following proven prescriptions to treat pig diseases with good results, so it is worth a try. Sow not eating after farrowing: after a sow gives birth, she does not eat for several days and her milk yield is low. The following prescription is used for treatment, with ideal results.
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What to Do If Sea Bass Won't Eat Feed? Causes and Solutions
In Chinese, there are four kinds of fish that can all be called sea bass (luyu), namely: the sea bass, scientific name Japanese sea bass (Lateolabrax japonicus), distributed in coastal waters and where rivers meet the sea in brackish water. The Songjiang bass, also called the four-gill bass, is a catadromous migratory fish and the most famous of them. The largemouth bass,
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Partridge Rearing Techniques and Key Points of Daily Management
The partridge, also known as the Chinese partridge, is a species of bird. Its body shape resembles that of a chicken but is smaller, and its feathers are mostly a mix of black and white, with the eye-like white spots on the back, chest and belly being especially prominent. It combines meat, ornamental and medicinal value in one. Below, let us take a look at the partridge's rear
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A Detailed Guide to Chinese Honey Bee Beekeeping Techniques: Living Habits and Management Essentials
Beekeeping techniques for the Chinese honey bee. The Chinese honey bee is also known as the Chinese bee (Apis cerana cerana). It has existed in our country for thousands of years, and wild Chinese honey bees mainly live in mountainous and hilly areas with abundant rainfall, humid air and a wide variety of nectar and pollen source plants. In tree holes, under cliffs, in rock crevices, earthen burrows and other wind
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