Postpartum Care Methods and Precautions for Sows
For a period of time after giving birth, sows are relatively weak in constitution and often show symptoms such as loss of appetite. Just like humans who need to take good care of their bodies after giving birth, which has a certain impact on their future physical condition, so postpartum care must be done well. The same goes for sows; after giving birth to piglets, they also need us to take good care of them, to prepare for the next litter and improve their service life. So today, let's take a look with the editor at how to care for sows after farrowing.
1. Rearing Environment
After a sow gives birth, its living environment needs to be dealt with. First, we need to remove and dispose of the placenta after the sow farrows. Second, check whether the sow has any injuries; if there are injuries, timely treatment is needed, because the piglets will be drinking breast milk for a period of time. To prevent the piglets from becoming infected, the sow must be well cared for. In addition, the pigpen will have relatively more bacteria right after farrowing, and the piglets' resistance is not very good, so the pigpen needs a comprehensive disinfection. A 2% Lysol solution can be used for disinfection. Next, keep the pigpen as clean as possible, frequently change the bedding in the pigpen and clean the pigpen more often, so that it has a clean and hygienic living environment after farrowing to maintain and repair its body.
2. Anti-inflammatory Treatment
After farrowing, the sow's uterus will more or less suffer some damage, so we need to give it anti-inflammatory treatment. If not handled well, it may lead to subsequent infertility. The anti-inflammatory period is generally one week. The method is to inject penicillin into the muscle, while also injecting potassium permanganate solution into the birth canal. If the sow's delivery process was relatively smooth, do not think that anti-inflammatory treatment is unnecessary; in fact, it is still needed. At the same time, penicillin should also be injected continuously for twenty days to strengthen its physical constitution. If the sow's anti-inflammatory results are not very obvious during the postpartum period, then at this time you had best use a traditional Chinese medicine method: take motherwort, boil it in water, add a little sugar, and give it to her to drink; the effect will be better this way.
3. Feeding Management
After farrowing, the sow will be in a relatively exhausted and thirsty state, so the first thing after farrowing is to give it water, while adding a little salt to the water to supplement the functions its body needs. Next, the sow will be very hungry after farrowing, because before farrowing it had little appetite and ate relatively little, so after farrowing it will really want to eat. We generally feed it something good, usually rice or well-cooked porridge. The feeding amount does not need to be too large; an ordinary amount is enough, then slowly increase the amount afterward, and finally restore it to the previous normal feed intake.
4. Loss of Appetite
Some sows develop anorexia after farrowing, having no appetite for anything, or even refusing to eat. The reason for this symptom is that its birth canal became infected during delivery, so it has no appetite. We generally add a little penicillin to the feed, or add some calcium tablets to the feed. At the same time, during the ten days after farrowing, rice porridge is generally fed, which is very helpful for its physical recovery.
5. No Milk or Low Milk Production After Farrowing
After farrowing, sows sometimes have insufficient milk, and piglets in the pigpen often scramble for milk. This is actually the most harmful to the sow. The piglets have no awareness at the beginning; even if there is no milk, they will keep biting the sow's teats, which will cause inflammation of the sow's udder and result in even less milk. After the sow farrows, if we want to avoid this situation, we need to simmer kelp and rice together into porridge and use it to feed the sow. This can make the sow's milk production sufficient and also improve the sow's physical constitution.
Sows will encounter many problems after farrowing. We may usually raise them more roughly, but during this period after farrowing we must take good care of them, otherwise the ones who ultimately suffer losses are ourselves. The above is the postpartum care methods for sows brought to you by Qinnong Net. We hope it can help all friends who raise pigs.