How to prevent and treat respiratory and digestive tract diseases in pigs in autumn? One trick and you're done
Autumn weather changes dramatically, with large temperature differences between day and night, making it apig diseasehigh-incidence season. Especially when biosecurity measures and production management are not properly implemented, pig herds are highly susceptible to disease, with respiratory and digestive tract diseases being particularly common, such as swine fever, blue ear disease (PRRS), circovirus disease, foot-and-mouth disease, infectious pleuropneumonia, Haemophilus parasuis disease, mycoplasma disease, atrophic rhinitis, as well as swine streptococcosis, swine dysentery, ileitis, colibacillosis, porcine eperythrozoonosis, toxoplasmosis, and so on. These diseases, when acute, can cause mass pig deaths; if they develop into chronic forms or remain latent within the herd, they can cause slow pig growth, increase the cost of pig farming, and seriously affect the economic benefits of pig farms. Therefore, autumn is the key season for preventingpig diseases.
Autumnpig diseaseprevention and treatmentmeasures
1. Implement good biosecurity measures and production management
a. Pig farms should establish and improve daily disinfection systems. Vehicles, materials, personnel, as well as pig houses and their equipment should be regularly disinfected. During processes such as immunization injection, castration, tail docking, and teeth clipping, iodine tincture should be used to strengthen local disinfection.
b. If sick pigs are found, isolate them promptlytreatthem; promptly cull pigs with no feeding value; harmless disposal of excreta and dead pigs to eliminate sources of infection.
c. Avoid various stress factors. Do a good job of cold protection and warmth in autumn and winter, ensure reasonable stocking density, ensure pig house hygiene, scientific management, standardized introduction of breeding stock, and strictly implement quarantine and isolation systems.
d. Strengthen feeding management of the pig herd, ensure the supply of sufficient and balanced nutrients to improve the herd's resistance;
e. For piglets, manage colostrum well, ensuring that every piglet gets enough colostrum within 12h after birth to enhance piglet resistance.
2. Reasonable vaccination immunization
Develop a reasonable immunization program. Avoid immunizing too early, as maternal antibodies may neutralize the vaccine; avoid immunizing too late, as the herd cannot be protected. In high-incidence areas, immunization should be strengthened.
3. Drugprevention and treatment
Do a good job of preventive health care for the pig herd. Forpig diseasesfrequently occurringpig farms, before the high-incidence season for pig respiratory and digestive tract diseases (especially spring and autumn),pig farmsshould provide preventive health care medication to susceptible pig herds in advance.
Targeted feeding of highly sensitive antibiotic drugs to the pig herd can be done. For example, adding doxycycline and tylvalosin sulfadimidine to feed can prevent andtreatrespiratory and digestive tract diseases. Doxycycline belongs to the tetracycline class of antibiotics and is an antibiotic with strong antibacterial activity and minimal toxicity (pharmacology). Tylvalosin sulfadimidine is a compound preparation with disease prevention, disease treatment, and growth promotion effects. The two combined and used together canprevent and treatcommon respiratory and digestive tract diseases.