How to assist with farrowing during special wild boar breeding

1. Preparation. About 20 days before the expected farrowing date of special wild boars, inject them intramuscularly with E. coli vaccine, or 3 days before farrowing inject them intramuscularly with a long-acting antibiotic. At the same time, thoroughly clean and wash the pens, and disinfect them with Lysol or potassium permanganate solution. After the concrete floor dries, spread dry bedding straw, install the drinking trough and electric lights, fill the trough with enough clean water, and prepare a farrowing box (in the cold seasons of winter and spring, a warming box should be prepared), iodine tincture, absorbent cotton balls, tying thread, sterilized scissors, etc., with a dedicated person on duty to watch over them.

2. Assisting with farrowing. The gestation period of female wild boars is generally about 114 days. Before farrowing begins, they start carrying straw in their mouths, urinate frequently, defecate in irregular places, have red and swollen vulvas, breathe faster, and are unwilling to stand, all of which indicate that farrowing is about to begin. Most wild boars lie on their sides on the bedding straw, strain, and then successfully deliver the piglets. Once a special wild boar has finished farrowing, it immediately stands up and begins to produce milk. If there are too many piglets and not enough teats, they can be fed in batches or fostered by other female wild boars. After the piglets are born, use a towel soaked in 3% potassium permanganate solution to wipe clean all the blood and dirt on their bodies and the mucus in their mouths. Leave 4-5 cm of the umbilical cord, tie it off with thread, then cut it, apply iodine tincture to the cut, and cut off the two canine teeth on each of the upper and lower sides of the mouth. Place the piglets in the prepared farrowing box. Finally, mix norfloxacin into a paste and place it at the base of the piglets' tongues for them to swallow, to prevent intestinal diseases such as hemolytic yellow-white scour and edema-type E. coli. After the female wild boar expels the placenta, disinfect the floor and promptly replace it with clean bedding such as rice straw. Wipe and wash the sow's teats and both sides with 3% potassium permanganate solution, and at the same time inject 3.2-4 million units of penicillin intramuscularly into the neck, twice a day for two consecutive days, to prevent high fever and uterine inflammation in the female wild boar. Afterward, place the piglets in the female wild boar's pen to let them suckle freely, feeding once every 4 hours, and be careful to prevent the piglets from being crushed to death by the female wild boar. After 20 days of age, the piglets should be vaccinated, and at 60 days of age they should be injected intramuscularly with the swine “triple vaccine.”