Feeding and management techniques of piglets

Piglets bought by pig farmers from the market are not only easy to get sick, but also easy to die. This is because before the pig went on the market, many farmers tried to make the pig as full as possible by various means. immediately after the pig was full, they were caught in a pig cage (or sack), and immediately picked up or sent to the pig market by car. After entering the market, because the pigs were crowded and crowded, they collided with each other, weighed and vaccinated during the transaction, and then picked up or drove to the new farmers' homes. The environment, feed and feeding methods have changed obviously, and some piglets have even just been weaned, resulting in pigs being unable to adapt and in a state of high tension, resulting in corresponding functional disorders of various systems of the body and a decline in disease resistance. pigs are easy to induce and secondary high fever, constipation, dysentery and other diseases. Coupled with the fact that pigs from all directions gather in the crowded pig market, it is inevitable that sick pigs and sources of infection will be brought in, resulting in the spread of disease (in case of severe cold or heat, but also prone to cold or heatstroke). Therefore, the feeding and management of newly purchased piglets should be strengthened, and corresponding comprehensive preventive measures should be taken to reduce the morbidity or death of pigs.

Prepare the piglets before entering the fence, and the shed and utensils should be thoroughly disinfected.

Before farmers prepare to buy piglets, they should prepare barns, utensils and feed. The barracks should be thoroughly cleaned, especially those that have suffered from epidemic diseases and died of sick pigs in the past, and should be thoroughly disinfected. The walls, floors, food troughs and drinking fountains can be disinfected by spraying 2% Murray 3% caustic soda solution, or 10% Muay 20% bleach solution, or 10% Muth20% lime milk, or 3% Muth5% coal phenol soap solution, or 2% Mustang 4% formalin solution, etc.; spades, brooms and other utensils can be washed with clean water and then exposed to sunlight.

Pigs should be raised by self-breeding as far as possible to reduce the introduction of diseases.

Pig farms and pig farmers have no basic sow herd, and rely on purchasing pig sources from the market. If strict quarantine and isolation measures are not taken, it is often inevitable to buy sick pigs and introduce the disease. Therefore, adhering to self-breeding is a basic measure to prevent the introduction of epidemic diseases. The practice of raising pigs in various places has proved that where pig farms and pig farmers adhere to self-breeding, there are few or no infectious diseases if the epidemic prevention system is sound. Pig farmers (especially pig farms) should establish basic sow herds as far as possible, insist on self-breeding, and it is best for farmers to buy pigs from disease-free pig farms or local healthy pig herds, and avoid buying pigs from the market as much as possible, so as to reduce the introduction of epidemic disease. and avoid unnecessary stress reactions in pigs.

After entering the fence, piglets should be fed step by step, and comprehensive measures should be taken to prevent the occurrence of epidemic disease.

The newly purchased piglets are put into the barn to allow them to move freely and are familiar with the new environment. There is always a clean drinking water supply in the barn. It is best to drink 0.1% potassium permanganate water in the first week. When looking for food, you can first feed an appropriate amount of green succulent feed, and then feed a small amount of full-price feed. It is generally appropriate for pigs to eat 7-8%, and then allow them to eat freely after they adapt to the new feeding method. In order to enhance the gastrointestinal adaptability of pigs, farmers should add appropriate amount of feed additives or antibiotics to feed their own mixture, and yeast or rhubarb soda tablets can be added to the feed. After about 10 days of feeding observation, if the feeding and drinking water of pigs are normal, pigs can be vaccinated against classical swine fever, swine erysipelas, porcine lung disease, piglet paratyphoid and so on. After 10-20 days of isolation and observation, if there is no epidemic disease, after deworming and castration, it can be mixed with other pigs and gradually transferred to the normal fattening stage.