Causes and prevention methods of pig hoof crack

In cold areas in winter, pig hoof cleft disease often occurs when raising pigs. Pig hoof crack refers to the limb and hoof disease with cracked hoof shell or slight bleeding. After suffering from this disease, pigs are unable to move, hinder their growth and reduce their fecundity. So what is the cause of the pig's cracked hoof? Let's take a look at the prevention and control measures of pig's hoof crack.

1. The cause of cracked hoof

There are many reasons for pig hoof cleft, including nutrition factors, feeding management factors, feeding environmental factors and climatic and seasonal factors, of which the main reasons are climatic season and nutrition. In the cold climate in winter, the capillaries on the pig body surface begin to contract, resulting in a decrease in the secretion of fatty substances, while the hoof shell can not be protected, which weakens elasticity and increases brittleness, coupled with constant action friction, resulting in cracking phenomenon. Nutritional factors mean that when there is a lack of trace elements such as vitamins, calcium and phosphorus in pig feed, the phenomenon of foot crack is very easy to appear. For example, when manganese is deficient, it is easy to cause foot deformation and transverse crack; when zinc is deficient, lateral crack occurs; when vitamin d is deficient, bone growth is poor and osteomalacia is easy to occur, which leads to uneven stress and foot crack when walking.

2. Preventive measures

Different preventive measures should be taken according to the causes of foot crack, such as improving the proportion of trace elements in feed to ensure balanced nutrition. If it is the reason of the climate season, we should find a way to improve the temperature of the pigsty. When the temperature is low and humid, we should do a good job of daily inspection. Once the hoof can be dry and hard, the elasticity decreases, and the brittleness increases, we can maintain it. The specific method is to apply some oils outside the hoof shell, such as vegetable oil, cod liver oil, etc., for the hoof shell has been deformed, timely repair, maintain sufficient light Pigs should be given a certain amount of exercise. On the other hand, the condition of rough friction and cracked hooves on the ground can improve the ground environment of the pigsty, flatten the ground or pad a thick layer of grass on the ground, so that the pig can reduce friction with the ground.

3. Treatment methods

There have been symptoms of cracked hooves, the first thing to do is to clean and disinfect to prevent bacterial infection and cause greater losses. Wash cracked pigs with saline or boiled cool water and wipe them with sterilized cotton balls. Then disinfect it with alcohol or low concentration of potassium permanganate solution. After disinfection and drying, sprinkle some penicillin powder or apply erythromycin ointment on the wound of the cracked hoof, and change the dressing for 2-3 days every day for 5-6 days.

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