What to do about piglet diarrhea? There is a new treatment method
New approach to treating piglet diarrhea
Piglet diarrhea is one of the important diseases in clinical practice today. After piglets develop the disease, weight gain declines, and severe dehydration can lead to death, so it has become a major factor affecting piglet growth.
Case A pig farmer in Gongzhuling City, Heilongjiang Province, since starting to raise pigs, has seen every litter of newborn piglets show symptoms of yellow, rice-water-like feces, and the feces have a fishy odor and contain undigested curd lumps. The yellow feces soil the piglets' tails and hindquarters. The piglets are in poor spirits, do not eat, and quickly become emaciated and dehydrated, with sunken eyeballs. A little later they excrete milky white or grayish white slurry-like or paste-like feces, and the feces contain bubbles. After a few days, the piglets' coats lose their luster, the conjunctiva and skin become pale, they fear the cold, and finally they die. Various drugs were used for treatment with no improvement.
Cause analysis Based on the symptoms, it can be seen that this disease is yellow-white scour caused by Escherichia coli. The occurrence of this disease is mainly related to the pig farm's feeding management, pen hygiene, piglet nutrition and other factors. First, because the rearing environment is poor, Escherichia coli in the environment easily contaminates the sow's skin, teats and the ground, and piglets become infected by suckling breast milk or rooting in the ground. Second, sudden climate changes and failure to keep piglets warm in time, especially in winter, easily cause diarrhea. In addition, newborn piglets' gastrointestinal digestive function is not yet fully developed, and their ability to secrete gastric acid is extremely poor, so their ability to inhibit and kill bacteria is weak, causing ingested pathogenic bacteria to multiply in large numbers in the gastrointestinal tract. The digestive tract function becomes disordered, chyle rapidly decomposes into harmful substances, and this severely irritates the intestinal mucosa, causing catarrhal enteritis. The intestinal contents ferment and putrefy, producing large amounts of gas, which increases irritation to the intestines, intensifies intestinal peristalsis, and causes severe absorption dysfunction, thereby triggering diarrheal diseases such as yellow-white scour in piglets.
Treatment measures After piglet diarrhea occurs on many pig farms, antibacterial drugs are used for treatment. Although they can kill some harmful bacteria, they also kill beneficial bacteria in the piglets' bodies. Long-term use also easily leads to drug resistance, and large-dose use causes drug poisoning in piglets. Moreover, diarrhea is not caused only by bacteria, and using drugs alone for prevention and treatment cannot achieve satisfactory results.
The author does not recommend adding drugs to the feed. Raisers can feed piglets a comprehensive and balanced diet so that they develop strong immunity. Balanced protein contains various balanced and comprehensive nutritional factors, Chinese herbal medicines, probiotics and other health substances, and has a unique effect in preventing and treating piglets. Method of use: add 8%-12% balanced protein to the pigs' basic diet, with no need to add drugs; long-term use has an outstanding preventive effect.
Any of the following methods can be used for treatment:
1. Add 16% balanced protein to the piglets' basic diet, and at the same time strengthen care. In winter and spring, pay attention to keeping warm. A layer of bedding straw can be spread on the ground, then gradually increased. There is no need to clean it out, which both keeps them warm and saves the work of cleaning feces. It can be cured in 2-4 days.
2. Mix cornmeal and balanced protein at a ratio of 2:1 and feed it for 1 day, and the diarrhea can be stopped.
3. For diarrhea in suckling pigs, soak balanced protein in warm water at a ratio of 1:1. After a while, take out the soaking liquid and use a syringe without a needle to administer it orally to the suckling pigs, 5-10 milliliters each time, 2 times a day, for 3 consecutive doses.
Case A pig farmer in Gongzhuling City, Heilongjiang Province, since starting to raise pigs, has seen every litter of newborn piglets show symptoms of yellow, rice-water-like feces, and the feces have a fishy odor and contain undigested curd lumps. The yellow feces soil the piglets' tails and hindquarters. The piglets are in poor spirits, do not eat, and quickly become emaciated and dehydrated, with sunken eyeballs. A little later they excrete milky white or grayish white slurry-like or paste-like feces, and the feces contain bubbles. After a few days, the piglets' coats lose their luster, the conjunctiva and skin become pale, they fear the cold, and finally they die. Various drugs were used for treatment with no improvement.
Cause analysis Based on the symptoms, it can be seen that this disease is yellow-white scour caused by Escherichia coli. The occurrence of this disease is mainly related to the pig farm's feeding management, pen hygiene, piglet nutrition and other factors. First, because the rearing environment is poor, Escherichia coli in the environment easily contaminates the sow's skin, teats and the ground, and piglets become infected by suckling breast milk or rooting in the ground. Second, sudden climate changes and failure to keep piglets warm in time, especially in winter, easily cause diarrhea. In addition, newborn piglets' gastrointestinal digestive function is not yet fully developed, and their ability to secrete gastric acid is extremely poor, so their ability to inhibit and kill bacteria is weak, causing ingested pathogenic bacteria to multiply in large numbers in the gastrointestinal tract. The digestive tract function becomes disordered, chyle rapidly decomposes into harmful substances, and this severely irritates the intestinal mucosa, causing catarrhal enteritis. The intestinal contents ferment and putrefy, producing large amounts of gas, which increases irritation to the intestines, intensifies intestinal peristalsis, and causes severe absorption dysfunction, thereby triggering diarrheal diseases such as yellow-white scour in piglets.
Treatment measures After piglet diarrhea occurs on many pig farms, antibacterial drugs are used for treatment. Although they can kill some harmful bacteria, they also kill beneficial bacteria in the piglets' bodies. Long-term use also easily leads to drug resistance, and large-dose use causes drug poisoning in piglets. Moreover, diarrhea is not caused only by bacteria, and using drugs alone for prevention and treatment cannot achieve satisfactory results.
The author does not recommend adding drugs to the feed. Raisers can feed piglets a comprehensive and balanced diet so that they develop strong immunity. Balanced protein contains various balanced and comprehensive nutritional factors, Chinese herbal medicines, probiotics and other health substances, and has a unique effect in preventing and treating piglets. Method of use: add 8%-12% balanced protein to the pigs' basic diet, with no need to add drugs; long-term use has an outstanding preventive effect.
Any of the following methods can be used for treatment:
1. Add 16% balanced protein to the piglets' basic diet, and at the same time strengthen care. In winter and spring, pay attention to keeping warm. A layer of bedding straw can be spread on the ground, then gradually increased. There is no need to clean it out, which both keeps them warm and saves the work of cleaning feces. It can be cured in 2-4 days.
2. Mix cornmeal and balanced protein at a ratio of 2:1 and feed it for 1 day, and the diarrhea can be stopped.
3. For diarrhea in suckling pigs, soak balanced protein in warm water at a ratio of 1:1. After a while, take out the soaking liquid and use a syringe without a needle to administer it orally to the suckling pigs, 5-10 milliliters each time, 2 times a day, for 3 consecutive doses.