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Swine Health

Swine Health. Disease and Parasite Prevention. Monitor herd health Record average rate of gain, feed intake, feed conversion, death rate, and treatments Periodic blood sampling Observing vital signs. Swine Vital Signs. Temperature: 102-103.6 avg. 102.6 Taken rectally

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Swine Health

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  1. Swine Health

  2. Disease and Parasite Prevention • Monitor herd health • Record average rate of gain, feed intake, feed conversion, death rate, and treatments • Periodic blood sampling • Observing vital signs

  3. Swine Vital Signs • Temperature: 102-103.6 avg. 102.6 • Taken rectally • Pulse Rate: 60-80 beats per minute • Heart must be felt directly over the chest • No artery or vein can be felt • Respiration rate: 8-13 breaths per minute • Count chest movements

  4. Pork Quality Assurance Program • Emphases good management • Promotes herd health programs • Reduce drug residue in marketed swine

  5. Sanitation Program • High-pressure wash to remove dirt and manure from the hog house • Scrubbed with soapy water • Use of disinfecting produce • Hot lye solution, iodine • Sodium carbonate, cresol • Pens for young pigs should receive the most attention • Restrict visitor entry

  6. Disease and Parasite Categories • Infectious diseases • Nutritional health problems • External parasites • Other health problems

  7. Infectious Diseases • Abscesses • Swelling filled with pus due to bacterial infection • Vary in size from marbles to baseballs • Slower rate of gain • Prevented by vaccinations

  8. Infectious Diseases • Brucellosis • Caused by bacteria • Abortion in early gestation • Spread mainly from infected boars • Buy clean breeding stock

  9. Infectious Diseases • Swine Dysentery • Caused by bacterium • Often confused with pig scouring problems • Weight loss, Fever, refusal to eat • Treated with various drugs that are added to drinking water • Avoid purchasing hogs from a herd that has had dysentery in the past 2 years

  10. Swine Dysentery

  11. Pair Work • Chapter 23 • Find 10 other infectious disease of swine • Give the symptoms, prevention, and treatment of each • Describe each • Use swine dysentery as an example

  12. Nutritional Health Problems • Anemia • Lack of iron in the diet • Affects mostly baby pigs • Controlled by giving iron to baby pigs

  13. Nutritional Health Problems • Hypoglycemia • Lack of sugar in the diet • High death rate • Symptoms: shivering, weakness, unsteady gait, dullness, loss of appetite • Hair coat becomes rough • Prevented by reducing stress

  14. Rickets • Lack of calcium, phosphorous, or vitamin D • Symptoms: slower growth and crooked legs • Controlled by providing proper amounts of Ca and P

  15. Rickets

  16. Pair Work • Chapter 23 • Find 2 other nutritional problems of swine • Give the symptoms, prevention, and treatment of each • Describe each • Use swine dysentery as an example

  17. External Parasites • Lice • Dull gray color about 1/4th inch long • Cluster in the ears, insides of the legs and around skin folds • Controlled by insecticides

  18. Lice

  19. Internal Parasites • Roundworms • Tapeworms • Flukes • Protoza

  20. Roundworms

  21. Tapeworms

  22. Flukes

  23. Protozoa

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