Causes and Control methods of stiff Pigs

Stiff pig refers to a disease caused by congenital or acquired causes of piglets, which will cause piglets to never grow up. No matter how they are fed, they will not gain weight. They often appear in every farm, bringing economic losses to the farm. So what is the cause of it? How to prevent and cure it? Let's take a look at the details.

1. Reason

According to the causes of its attack, it can be roughly divided into congenital and acquired, which is mainly inbreeding, early mating or aging and aging of breeding pigs, which leads to congenital deficiencies such as small size and slow development of piglets, which is easy to form fetal stiffness. There are many reasons, such as insufficient milk of sows after production, insufficient milk of piglets, milk stiffness caused by growth obstruction, repeated diseases of piglets, or parasitic diseases that lead to massive consumption of nutrition, affecting eating and stiffness caused by malnutrition. There are improper feeding and scrambling for food between big and small pigs, resulting in food stiffness caused by lack of food for piglets, in which disease stiffness and food stiffness are the main causes of acquired stiff pigs.

2. Symptoms

Stiff pigs mainly occur in piglets born to 20kg or so, which are specifically dishevelled, fluffy and dishevelled, pale mucous membrane, wobbly walking, often lying on the ground, brain melon, round belly, sharp buttocks, weak and thin physique. The most obvious characteristics are not eating long, slow growth or stagnation. According to statistics, the daily weight gain of stiff pigs is not more than 50 grams, while the weight of some piglets is still about 20kg after half a year, which has a serious economic impact on farmers.

3. Prevention and control methods

As the causes of stiff pigs are different, so according to different causes, targeted prevention and control. For congenital causes, inbreeding should be avoided, breeding should not be carried out prematurely, breeding pigs should wait until the breeding period is suitable for breeding, the quality of offspring should be improved, the phenomenon of stiff pigs should be reduced, and the breeding pigs with old and weak body should be eliminated in time. Replace the new breeding pigs with strong vitality.

Milk stiffness: the feeding and management of sows should be strengthened during pregnancy and lactation to ensure the supply of protein, vitamins and minerals, and to have sufficient nutrition to produce milk, so as to make piglets grow and develop well in lactation.

Stiff disease: pay attention to the hygiene of the breeding environment, timely cleaning and disinfection, prevent bacteria from infecting diseases, and deal with them in time after discovering diseases, so as to prevent diseases from continuing to harm piglets.

Food stiffness: to be reasonably raised in groups, when piglets are weaned and can eat freely, piglets should be raised separately from other big pigs, so as to avoid the phenomenon of grazing, resulting in the situation that piglets can not eat.

The above are the causes and control methods of stiff pigs. I hope it can help you. If you want to know more about raising pigs, please pay attention to this site.