Prevention and treatment of common diseases in pigs

Pig farming is the most common breeding industry in China, in addition to professional large-scale farms, it is more common in rural areas, basically each household will raise several heads, as a source of income. There are a lot of diseases in pig farming, which cause great trouble to farmers, causing slow growth of pigs, increasing breeding costs, and causing death and great losses of pigs. Therefore, to understand the disease symptoms and prevention methods of pigs are directly related to the economic benefits of farmers, the following pro-agricultural network brings common disease prevention and control methods for pigs, let's take a look.

1. Classical swine fever

Classical swine fever is an extremely harmful and rapidly contagious disease, it occurs all over the world, and its mortality rate is extremely high. if it is not stopped, it will spread the whole farm in a short time and bring huge economic losses to pig farmers. It has different symptoms in the early stage of the disease, mainly acute, chronic and mild. At the onset of the disease, the pig's body temperature began to rise, usually between 40 and 42 degrees, and the whole body and viscera began to congestion and bleeding, accompanied by a variety of inflammation, until the pig died.

Prevention and control methods: there is no specific treatment for classical swine fever around the world, pay attention to prevention, the most effective way is vaccination, found that sick pigs should be isolated in time, timely cleaning and disinfection treatment. In order to avoid infecting other pigs, pigs should be cleaned up after death.

2. Pig foot-and-mouth disease

Pig foot-and-mouth disease is caused by virus infection, which harms the mouth and hooves of pigs, showing blisters and rotten spots on the skin of the crown, toes and heel, and similar symptoms in oral mucosa and nose of the diseased pigs. The disease generally occurs between winter and spring communication, in addition, the breeding environment is messy, feeding contaminated feed will also lead to the occurrence of the disease.

Prevention and treatment methods: strengthen the sanitary environment, wash and disinfect the sick animals regularly, cull the diseased animals in time, put an end to the pathogen, prevent infection, vaccinate pigs, reduce the risk of disease, and curb the epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease.

3. Swine flu

Swine flu is an acute and contagious respiratory disease, which often breaks out among pigs. It is highly contagious, but generally does not kill people. It has a high incidence in autumn and winter. The disease is more sudden, pig cough, dyspnea, body fever and other symptoms.

Prevention and control methods: strengthen management, regular disinfection, and pay attention to the sanitary conditions of pig houses, pay attention to weather changes, once the temperature is lowered, warm measures should be taken, continuous inoculation of swine influenza adjuvant inactivated vaccine twice, can be protected for 8 months. When paying attention to swine flu, people and animals who are prone to influenza are prohibited from coming into contact with animals to avoid contagion. People and animals who also have influenza should not come into contact with pigs.

4. Swine dysentery

Porcine dysentery is a gastrointestinal infectious disease, which can occur in pigs of all ages and breeds, mainly piglets, with higher morbidity and mortality than adult pigs. At the time of onset, pigs will have varying degrees of diarrhea, with the development of the disease, there are a lot of mucus, blood and purulent secretions in the excreta, diseased pigs have loss of appetite, poor spirit, physical weakness, until weakness and death.

Prevention and treatment: the disease is mainly caused by infection carried by germs. when buying breeding pigs, check and quarantine, do a good job in the environmental hygiene cleaning and disinfection of pig houses, especially the excreta of pigs, and treat them with drugs in time.

The above are the prevention and control methods of common diseases of pigs brought by pro-agricultural network. There are hundreds of diseases in pigs. Here are the more common and infectious ones. I hope they can help you. For more related content, please pay attention to pro-agricultural network.